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Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel
When author James Baldwin died…
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Daphne A. Brooks
The son of ‘60s star Tim Buckley blew the rock world away when he released this instant classic of astonishing range and depth. Its status has become all the more…
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Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance
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Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to Beyonce. Informed by the overlooked contributions of women who wrote about the…
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Professor Daphne Brooks
A little girl named Kennedy gets to visit her father who is incarcerated.
The essays in this collection theorize the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings from the 19th century through to the present day.
New Perspectives contains fresh essays that analyze James Weldon Johnson’s iconic book’s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author…
James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of…
