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Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rutgers University Press<\/a>
\n2022-12-09
\n218 pages
\n7 b-w illustrations
\n6 x 9
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781978830875
\nCloth ISBN: 9781978830882
\nEPUB ISBN: 9781978830899
\nPDF ISBN: 9781978830905<\/p>\n

Daniel McNeil<\/strong><\/a>, Department of Gender Studies
\nQueen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thinking While Black<\/em> brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America<\/a>, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom<\/a>, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s. Drawing on hidden and little known archives of resistance and resilience, it sheds new light on the politics and poetics of young people who came together, often outside of conventional politics, to rock against racism in the 1970s and early \u201880s. It re-examines debates in the 1980s and \u201890s about artists who \u201cspread out\u201d to mount aggressive challenges to a straight, white, middle-class world, and entertainers who \u201csold out\u201d to build their global brands with performances that attacked the Black poor, rejected public displays of introspection, and expressed unambiguous misogyny and homophobia. Finally, it thinks with and through the work of writers who have been celebrated and condemned as eminent intellectuals and curmudgeonly contrarians in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it delivers the smartest and most nuanced investigation into thinkers such as Paul Gilroy<\/a> and Armond White<\/a> as they have evolved from \u201cyoung soul rebels\u201d to \u201cmiddle-aged mavericks\u201d and \u201cgrumpy old men,\u201d lamented the debasement and deskilling of Black film and music in a digital age, railed against the discourteous discourse and groupthink of screenies and Internet Hordes, and sought to stimulate some deeper and fresher thinking about racism, nationalism, multiculturalism, political correctness and social media.<\/p>\n

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