Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic

by Amy Abugo Ongiri (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $30.83

  Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity.