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The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

By Jemma Decristo

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness Law

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

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In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the aesthetic thought of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno, DeCristo critiques the exaltation of black culture and art's saving power by analyzing the violence underneath aesthetic production. She tracks black music's representational and anti-representational capacities in projects of black non/humanization from nineteenth-century abolitionism and the founding of the recording industry to the emergence of black queer blues performers and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Theorizing the contemporary neoliberalization of black audio-visual spectacle, DeCristo ultimately demonstrates that the voluptuous world of black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2025-10-28
Publication Date:
2025-10-28
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478032588
ISBN13:
9781478032588
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
474 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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