Black feelings : race and affect in the long sixties /

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"In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the black liberation movement...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corrigan, Lisa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Black power > United States > Psychological aspects.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
Black power > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Civil rights
Emotions > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Racial feelings in black and white
  • Postwar feelings: beyond hope
  • Contouring black hope and despair
  • American negritude: black rage and the restoration of pride
  • Feeling riots: the emotional language of urban rebellion
  • Mourning King: memory, affect, and the shaping of black power
  • Revolutionary suicide: necromimesis, radical agency, and black ontology
  • Conclusion: The Obama coalition: reinvigorating liberal hope
  • Notes
  • Index.

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