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“The Blackness Of Blackness”: Meta-Black Identity In 20th/21st Century African American Culture, Casey Hayman Nov 2017

“The Blackness Of Blackness”: Meta-Black Identity In 20th/21st Century African American Culture, Casey Hayman

Doctoral Dissertations

The central claim in this dissertation is that much contemporary African American cultural expression would be better conceptualized not as “post-black,” as some would have it, but as what I call “meta-black.” I use the preface “meta-” because while this contemporary black identity also resists sometimes constrictive conceptions of “authentic” black identity from within the African American community, I diverge from theorists of “post-blackness” in observing the ways that, as Nicole Fleetwood observes, blackness necessarily “circulates” within a technologically-driven mediascape, and these postmodern black subjects work within and against the constraints of this aural-visual regime of blackness in order to …


Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd

A Yęmisi Jimoh

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