The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

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Author(s)
DeCristo, Jemma
Language
English
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Abstract
Jemma DeCristo shows how black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108172
Keywords
Imagination; Force; Beauty; Sublimate; Evict; Capture; Void; Frederick Douglass; W .E. B. Du Bois; Alaine Lock; Harlem Renaissance; Black Arts Movement; Justification; Free World; Mastery; Representation; Regulative; Character; Aesthetic production; Humanized; Calculous; Slave; George W. Johnson; Black voice; phonographic; Documentary Embodiment; Skin; Aesthetic Comportment; Buoyancy; Value; Inheritance; Toni Morrison Jazz; dignity; testimony; James Van Der Zee; Harlem Book of the Dead; Black beauty; Beautification; Black Aesthetic; Floral; Black Bourgeoisie; Amiri Baraka; Larry Neal; Dingane Goncalves; OBA-CAfriCOBRA
DOI
10.1215/9781478061403
ISBN
9781478094531, 9781478094531, 9781478029212, 9781478032588, 9781478061403
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina USA, 2025
Classification
Media studies
Pages
288
Public remark
Funded by: University of California Libraries
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/