Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power 1
5. I. CITIES AND SITES
6. 1. Black Light on the Wall of Respect: The Chicago Black Arts Movement 23
7. 2. Black West, Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles 43
8. 3. The Black Arts Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities 75
9. 4. A Question of Relevancy: New York Museums and the Black Arts Movement, 1968–1971 92
10. 5. Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno 117
11. II. GENRES AND IDEOLOGIES
12. 6. A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural Nationalism 137
13. 7. Natural Black Beauty and Black Drag 154
14. 8. Sexual Subversions, Political Inversions: Women’s Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement 173
15. 9. Transcending the Fixity of Race: The Kamoinge Workshop and the Question of a “Black Aesthetic” in Photography 187
16. 10. Moneta Sleet, Jr. as Active Participant: The Selma March and the Black Arts Movement 210
17. 11. “If Bessie Smith Had Killed Some White People”: Racial Legacies, the Blues Revival, and the Black Arts Movement 227
18. III. PREDECESSORS, PEERS, AND LEGACIES
19. 12. A Familiar Strangeness: The Spectre of Whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement 255
20. 13. The Art of Transformation: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements 273
21. 14. Prison Writers and the Black Arts Movement 297
22. 15. “To Make a Poet Black”: Canonizing Puerto Rican Poets in the Black Arts Movement 317
23. 16. Latin Soul: Cross-Cultural Connections between the Black Arts Movement and Pocho-Che 333
24. 17. Black Arts to Def Jam: Performing Black “Spirit Work” across Generations 349
25. Afterword: This Bridge Called “Our Tradition”: Notes on Blueblack, ‘Round’midnight, Blacklight “Connection” 369
26. Notes on Contributors 375
27. Index 379