Authentisches Schwarzsein – Echtes Schwarzsein: Essays zur Bedeutung des Schwarzseins in Literatur und Kultur

Author/Contributor(s):	Brock, Rochelle ; Johnson, Richard Greggory, III ; Japtok, Martin
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Date:	06/10/2011
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Authentic Blackness - «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real, » as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of «authentic blackness, » while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and «real» blackness; the link between «blackness» and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle's comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.