Black Studies Rap And The Academy

Author : Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616733X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy written by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615629X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380056
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning South Again written by Houston A. Baker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions—particularly that of incarceration—have always been at the center of the African American experience. From the holds of slave ships to the peonage of Reconstruction to the contemporary prison system, incarceration has largely defined black life in the United States. Even Washington’s school at Tuskegee, Baker explains, housed and regulated black bodies no longer directly controlled by slave owners. He further implicates Washington by claiming that in enacting his ideas about racial “uplift,” Washington engaged in “mulatto modernism,” a compromised attempt at full citizenship. Combining autobiographical prose, literary criticism, psychoanalytic writing, and, occasionally, blues lyrics and poetry, Baker meditates on the consequences of mulatto modernism for the project of black modernism, which he defines as the achievement of mobile, life-enhancing participation in the public sphere and economic solvency for the majority of African Americans. By including a section about growing up in the South, as well as his recent return to assume a professorship at Duke, Baker contributes further to one of the book’s central concerns: a call to centralize the South in American cultural studies.

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322407
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Memory written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O. J. Simpson, Chris Rock, and Jesse Jackson within such issues as the embattled state of African American manhood and the "financing and promotion of black intellectuals." The "memory" of the book's title is doubly "critical." It is imperative, Baker says, that we keep alive the "embarrassing, macabre, and always bizarre" memory of race in America. In another respect, the remembering must be pointed and keen enough to discern truth from its often highly politicized, commercialized trappings. Throughout the book, Baker returns again and again to the triad of race, "likability" (the compromises by which one gains credibility in white America), and "clearance" (the separation of blacks from the "rights, spaces, and privileges of American citizenship"). These concepts, Baker argues, gird the meritocracy, still in force, that claimed progress in granting black men like his father the freedom to work themselves to death behind a desk instead of a mule. In Critical Memory reason and cool rage converge to expose the draining tasks of reconciling white America's perception of its righteousness with its lack of relish for the truth it claims to welcome from black intellectuals and artists.

Author : Houston A. Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616084X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.

Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035239
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workings of the Spirit written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761404422
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.

Author : Karen Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739197523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip-hop Within and Without the Academy written by Karen Snell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip-hop's historical nature as a mouthpiece for marginalized peoples provides a platform for its universal-appeal and contemporary relevancy. Moreover, hip-hop culture's affirmation of a pedagogy of liberation has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions in western public schools.

Author : Monica R. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472507223
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Hip Hop written by Monica R. Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual weight and contributions to the cultural life and self-understanding of the United States. More recently, the academic study of religion has given hip hop culture closer and more critical attention, yet this conversation is often limited to discussions of hip hop and traditional understandings of religion and a methodological hyper-focus on lyrical and textual analyses. Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the Terrain provides an important step in advancing and mapping this new field of Religion and Hip Hop Studies. The volume features 14 original contributions representative of this new terrain within three sections representing major thematic issues over the past two decades. The Preface is written by one of the most prolific and founding scholars of this area of study, Michael Eric Dyson, and the inclusion of and collaboration with Bernard 'Bun B' Freeman fosters a perspective internal to Hip Hop and encourages conversation between artists and academics.

Author : Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035246
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance written by Houston A. Baker, Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review