Research Catalog

Title

Black cool [electronic resource] : one thousand streams of Blackness / edited by Rebecca Walker.

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-
• OverDrive, Inc.

Description

1 online resource : ill.

Summary

Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women's fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde, Black Cool looks at the roots of Black Cool and attempts to name elements of the phenomena that have emerged to shape the global expectation of cool itself. Buoyed by some of America's most innovative thinkers on the subject--graphic novelist Mat Johnson, Brown University Professor of African Studies.

Alternative Title

One thousand streams of Blackness

Subjects

• Electronic books
• Race relations
• African Americans > Race identity
• African Americans > Psychology
• Literature
• United States > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

Contents

Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Introduction / by Rebecca Walker -- Audacity / by dream hampton -- The geek / by Mat Johnson -- Crazy / by Rachel M. Harper -- Reserve / by Helena Andrews -- The hipster / by Dayo Olopade -- The break / by Valorie Thomas -- Resistance / by Michaela angela Davis -- Forever / by bell hooks -- Hunger / by Veronica Chambers -- Eccentricity / by Margo Jefferson -- Soul / by Hank Willis Thomas -- Authenticity / by Staceyann Chin -- The scream / by Ulli K. Ryder -- Evolution / by Miles Marshall Lewis -- The posse / by Esther Armah -- Swagger / by Dawoud Bey.

ISBN

• 9781593764722 (electronic bk.)
• 1593764723 (electronic bk.)

OCLC

• 779828855
• 779828855

Title

Black cool [electronic resource] : one thousand streams of Blackness / edited by Rebecca Walker.

Imprint

Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Note

Description based on print version record.

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Added Author

Walker, Rebecca, 1969 November 17-

OverDrive, Inc.

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One thousand streams of Blackness

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Print version: Black cool. Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012 9781593764173 (OCoLC)693810216

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