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Afro-nostalgia : feeling good in contemporary black culture /

"As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ahad-Legardy, Badia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Collection:New Black studies series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Ten thousand recollections: Afro-nostalgia and contemporary Black aesthetics
  • (Nostalgic) retribution: the power of the petty in contemporary narratives of slavery
  • (Nostalgic) restoration: Utopian pasts and political futures in the music of Black Lives Matter
  • (Nostalgic) regeneration: absent archives and historical pleasures in contemporary Black visual culture
  • (Nostalgic) reclamation: recipes for radicalism and the politics of soul(food)
  • Postscript: a future for Black nostalgia.