The Black Public Sphere

355 pages
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7 x 8-1/2
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© 1995
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
The Black Public Sphere Collective
The Black Public Sphere
Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Malcolm X and the Black Public Sphere: Conversionists versus Culturalists
Manthia Diawara
"After the Love Has Gone": bio-politics and etho-poetics in the black public sphere
Paul Gilroy
"Can You Be BLACK and Look at This?": Reading the Rodney King Video(s)
Elizabeth Alexander
Photo Essays
Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May 1994
Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders, and Democracy
Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
Elsa Barkley Brown
Race, Identity, and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere
Steven Gregory
Black Cinderella?: Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil
Michael Hanchard
Photo Essay
Black Global Public Spheres
A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics
Michael C. Dawson
"A Nation of Thieves": Consumption, Commerce, and the Black Public Sphere
Regina Austin
X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere
Rosemary J. Coombe and Paul Stoller
Culture versus Commerce: The Marketing of Black Popular Music
Reebee Garofalo
Check Yo Self, Before You Wreck Yo Self: Variations on a Political Theme in Rap Music and Popular Culture
Todd Boyd
University Presses and the Black Reader
Elizabeth Maguire
Afterword: Mapping the Black Public Sphere
Thomas C. Holt
Index
The Black Public Sphere Collective
The Black Public Sphere
Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Malcolm X and the Black Public Sphere: Conversionists versus Culturalists
Manthia Diawara
"After the Love Has Gone": bio-politics and etho-poetics in the black public sphere
Paul Gilroy
"Can You Be BLACK and Look at This?": Reading the Rodney King Video(s)
Elizabeth Alexander
Photo Essays
Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May 1994
Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders, and Democracy
Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
Elsa Barkley Brown
Race, Identity, and Political Activism: The Shifting Contours of the African American Public Sphere
Steven Gregory
Black Cinderella?: Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil
Michael Hanchard
Photo Essay
Black Global Public Spheres
A Black Counterpublic?: Economic Earthquakes, Racial Agenda(s), and Black Politics
Michael C. Dawson
"A Nation of Thieves": Consumption, Commerce, and the Black Public Sphere
Regina Austin
X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere
Rosemary J. Coombe and Paul Stoller
Culture versus Commerce: The Marketing of Black Popular Music
Reebee Garofalo
Check Yo Self, Before You Wreck Yo Self: Variations on a Political Theme in Rap Music and Popular Culture
Todd Boyd
University Presses and the Black Reader
Elizabeth Maguire
Afterword: Mapping the Black Public Sphere
Thomas C. Holt
Index
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