Authentic Blackness/"real" Blackness : essays on the meaning of Blackness in literature and culture / edited by Martin Japtok and Jerry Rafiki Jenkins.

Other author Japtok, Martin.
Other author Jenkins, Rafiki, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, ©2011.
Descriptionvi, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBlack studies & critical thinking ; v. 26
Black studies & critical thinking v. 26. ^A1063289
Contents What does it mean to be "really" Black? A selective history of authentic Blackness / Martin Japtok and Rafiki Jenkins -- The "defining" problem of Black authenticity in Canada : real slang and the grammar of cultural hybridity / Dara N. Byrne and Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Privileging the popular at what price? A discussion of Joan Morgan, hip hop, feminism, and radical politics / David M. Jones -- Claiming hip hop : authenticity debates, Filipino DJs, and contemporary U.S. racial formations / Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. -- "Faking the funk" : a journey towards authentic Blackness / Wendy Alexia Rountree -- Brown boy blues-- inna Jamaica / Gregory Stephens -- Black authenticity, Racial drag, and the case of Dave Chappelle / Joy Viveros -- How Black do you want it? Countee Cullen and the contest for racial authenticity on page and stage / Jonathan Shandell -- Peculiar irresolution : James Baldwin and Flânerie / Monika Gehlawat -- "Many forces at work" : Clarence Major's early fiction and the critique of racial economy / Benjamin D. Carson -- "Isn't the whole point of writing to escape what people not me think of me" : the failure of language and the search for authenticity in Philadelphia fire and God's gym / Ian Reilly.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2011012665
ISBN9781433115080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1433115085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781433115097 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1433115093 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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