Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

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Soul babies : black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

Mark Anthony Neal

Routledge, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210) and index

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ISBN 9780415926577

Description

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and experience. Lively and provocative, Soul Babies offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements You Remind Me of Something: Towards a Post-Soul Aesthetic Chapter One Sweetback's Revenge: Gangsters, Blaxploitation, and Black Middle Class Identity Chapter Two Baby Mama (Drama) and Baby Daddy (Trauma): Post-Soul Gender Politics Chapter Three The Post-Soul Intelligentsia: Mass Media, Popular Culture and Social Praxis Chapter Four Native Tongues: Voices of the Post-Soul Intelligentsia Chapter Five A Soul Baby in Real Time: Generation Hip-hop on Campus Epilogue
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: pbk ISBN 9780415926584

Description

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and experience. Lively and provocative, Soul Babies offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.

Table of Contents

Preface You Remind Me of Something: Towards a Post-Soul Aesthetic Chapter One Sweetback's Revenge: Gangsters, Blaxploitation, and Black Middle Class Identity Chapter Two Baby Mama (Drama) and Baby Daddy (Trauma): Post-Soul Gender Politics Chapter Three The Post-Soul Intelligentsia: Mass Media, Popular Culture and Social Praxis Chapter Four Native Tongues: Voices of the Post-Soul Intelligentsia Chapter Five A Soul Baby in Real Time: Generation Hip-hop on Campus Epilogue

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