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Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture

By: Martin Japtok, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
ISBN: 9781433115097
$183.99
9781433115097
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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.
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