New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power
Part I: Cities and Sites
	Chapter 1: Black Light on the Wall of Respect: The Chicago Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 2: Black West, Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles
	Chapter 3: The Black Arts Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
	Chapter 4: A Question of Relevancy: New York Museums and the Black Arts Movement, 1968–1971
	Chapter 5: Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno
Part II: Genres and Ideologies
	Chapter 6: A Black Mass as Black Gothic: Myth and Bioscience in Black Cultural Nationalism
	Chapter 7: Natural Black Beauty and Black Drag
	Chapter 8: Sexual Subversions, Political Inversions: Women’s Poetry and the Politics of the Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 9: Transcending the Fixity of Race: The Kamoinge Workshop and the Question of a “Black Aesthetic” in Photography
	Chapter 10: Moneta Sleet, Jr. as Active Participant: The Selma March and the Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 11: “If Bessie Smith Had Killed Some White People”: Racial Legacies, the Blues Revival, and the Black Arts Movement
Part III: Predecessors, Peers, and Legacies
	Chapter 12: A Familiar Strangeness: The Spectre of Whiteness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 13: The Art of Transformation: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements
	Chpater 14: Prison Writers and the Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 15: “To Make a Poet Black”: Canonizing Puerto Rican Poets in the Black Arts Movement
	Chapter 16: Latin Soul: Cross-Cultural Connections between the Black Arts Movement and Pocho-Che
	Chapter 17: Black Arts to Def Jam: Performing Black “Spirit Work” across Generations
Afterword: This Bridge Called “Our Tradition”: Notes on Blueblack, ‘Round’midnight, Blacklight “Connection”
Notes on Contributors
Index