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Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy

Author : Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616733X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy written by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615629X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review

Workings of the Spirit

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035239
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Workings of the Spirit written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.

Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616084X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature by : Houston A. Baker

Download or read book Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

Turning South Again

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380056
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Turning South Again written by Houston A. Baker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions—particularly that of incarceration—have always been at the center of the African American experience. From the holds of slave ships to the peonage of Reconstruction to the contemporary prison system, incarceration has largely defined black life in the United States. Even Washington’s school at Tuskegee, Baker explains, housed and regulated black bodies no longer directly controlled by slave owners. He further implicates Washington by claiming that in enacting his ideas about racial “uplift,” Washington engaged in “mulatto modernism,” a compromised attempt at full citizenship. Combining autobiographical prose, literary criticism, psychoanalytic writing, and, occasionally, blues lyrics and poetry, Baker meditates on the consequences of mulatto modernism for the project of black modernism, which he defines as the achievement of mobile, life-enhancing participation in the public sphere and economic solvency for the majority of African Americans. By including a section about growing up in the South, as well as his recent return to assume a professorship at Duke, Baker contributes further to one of the book’s central concerns: a call to centralize the South in American cultural studies.

Critical Memory

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322407
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Critical Memory written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O. J. Simpson, Chris Rock, and Jesse Jackson within such issues as the embattled state of African American manhood and the "financing and promotion of black intellectuals." The "memory" of the book's title is doubly "critical." It is imperative, Baker says, that we keep alive the "embarrassing, macabre, and always bizarre" memory of race in America. In another respect, the remembering must be pointed and keen enough to discern truth from its often highly politicized, commercialized trappings. Throughout the book, Baker returns again and again to the triad of race, "likability" (the compromises by which one gains credibility in white America), and "clearance" (the separation of blacks from the "rights, spaces, and privileges of American citizenship"). These concepts, Baker argues, gird the meritocracy, still in force, that claimed progress in granting black men like his father the freedom to work themselves to death behind a desk instead of a mule. In Critical Memory reason and cool rage converge to expose the draining tasks of reconciling white America's perception of its righteousness with its lack of relish for the truth it claims to welcome from black intellectuals and artists.

Race Music

Author : Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243331
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Race Music written by Guthrie P. Ramsey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

Hip-hop Within and Without the Academy

Author : Karen Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739197523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Hip-hop Within and Without the Academy written by Karen Snell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-hop's historical nature as a mouthpiece for marginalized peoples provides a platform for its universal-appeal and contemporary relevancy. Moreover, hip-hop culture's affirmation of a pedagogy of liberation has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions in western public schools.

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline

Author : Daniel White Hodge
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433174407
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline written by Daniel White Hodge and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K-12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirming communities where students, parents, advocates and community members collaborate to compose liberating and just frameworks that effectively define the school-to-prison pipeline and identify the nefarious ways it adversely affects their lives. This book is for educators, activists, community organizers, teachers, scholars, politicians, and administrators who we hope will join us in challenging the predominant preconceived notion held by many educators that Hip-Hop has no redeemable value. Lastly, the authors/editors argue against the understanding of Hip-Hop studies as primarily an academic endeavor situated solely in the academy. They understand the fact that people on streets, blocks, avenues, have been living and theorizing about Hip-Hop since its inception. This important critical book is an honest, thorough, powerful, and robust examination of the ingenious and inventive ways people who have an allegiance to Hip-Hop work tirelessly, in various capacities, to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.

Blood Talk

Author : Susan Gillman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226293899
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Blood Talk written by Susan Gillman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, Susan Gillman explores America during the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War, and the rise during this period of a remarkable genre - the race melodrama - and the ways in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, and fringe movements." --Publisher.

Religion in Hip Hop

Author : Monica R. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472507223
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Hip Hop written by Monica R. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual weight and contributions to the cultural life and self-understanding of the United States. More recently, the academic study of religion has given hip hop culture closer and more critical attention, yet this conversation is often limited to discussions of hip hop and traditional understandings of religion and a methodological hyper-focus on lyrical and textual analyses. Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the Terrain provides an important step in advancing and mapping this new field of Religion and Hip Hop Studies. The volume features 14 original contributions representative of this new terrain within three sections representing major thematic issues over the past two decades. The Preface is written by one of the most prolific and founding scholars of this area of study, Michael Eric Dyson, and the inclusion of and collaboration with Bernard 'Bun B' Freeman fosters a perspective internal to Hip Hop and encourages conversation between artists and academics.

Introduction to African American Studies

Author : Talmadge Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to African American Studies written by Talmadge Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African American Writers & Classical Tradition

Author : William W. Cook
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789985
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book African American Writers & Classical Tradition written by William W. Cook and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.

Keywords for African American Studies

Author : Erica R. Edwards
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479888532
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Keywords for African American Studies written by Erica R. Edwards and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. Taking up a vast array of issues such as slavery, colonialism, prison expansion, sexuality, gender, feminism, war, and popular culture, Keywords for African American Studies showcases the startling breadth that characterizes the field. Featuring an august group of contributors across the social sciences and the humanities, the keywords assembled within the pages of this volume exemplify the depth and range of scholarly inquiry into Black life in the United States. Connecting lineages of Black knowledge production to contemporary considerations of race, gender, class, and sexuality, Keywords for African American Studies provides a model for how the scholarship of the field can meet the challenges of our social world.

The Journey Back

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035352
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Journey Back written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses 18th-century black writers, the autobiographical writings of slaves, the works of Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, and Brooks, and traditional approaches to African-American literature.

What the Music Said

Author : Mark Anthony Neal
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415920711
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book What the Music Said written by Mark Anthony Neal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

Author : Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035246
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance written by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review