%0 Book
%A Martin Japtok
%A Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
%D 2011
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1947-5985
%T Authentic Blackness – «Real» Blackness
%B Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1143826
%X 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.
%K African American, Literature, Culture, Popular Culture, Ethnicity, Race, Identity
%G English