Thinking While Black
eBook - ePub

Thinking While Black

Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Thinking While Black

Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

About this book

This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution.

Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival research, politics, film theory, and pop culture, Daniel McNeil examines two of the most celebrated and controversial Black thinkers working today. Thinking While Black takes us on a transatlantic journey through the radical movements that rocked against racism in 1970s Detroit and Birmingham, the rhythms of everyday life in 1980s London and New York, and the hype and hostility generated by Oscar-winning films like 12 Years a Slave.

The lives and careers of White and Gilroy—along with creative contemporaries of the post–civil rights era such as Bob Marley, Toni Morrison, Stuart Hall, and Pauline Kael—should matter to anyone who craves deeper and fresher thinking about cultural industries, racism, nationalism, belonging, and identity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Praise for Thinking While Black
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Theories in Motion: Mapping the Roots and Routes of a Rebel Generation
  10. 2. Black and British: A Lived Contradiction
  11. 3. A Movie-Struck Kid from Detroit: Going Deeper into Movies
  12. 4. Slave-Descendants, Diaspora Subjects, and World Citizens: Paul Gilroy’s Historical Sensibility
  13. 5. Enlarging The American Cinema: Armond White vs. the Straight Middle-Class White World (and the Black Bourgeoisie)
  14. 6. Middle-aged, Gifted, and Black: Structures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic
  15. Coda: Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner
  16. Notes
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index