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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

By: Kevin Quashie

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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

By: Kevin Quashie

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition—Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question “how to be.” In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy of being, which is nothing less than a philosophy of the becoming of the Black world.

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Duke University Press

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1478021322

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Quashie

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Quashie

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander’s reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison’s Sula to move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553113

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9780813553115

The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Quashie

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Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

By: Kevin Quashie

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Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out

By: Kevin Wynter

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Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out

By: Kevin Wynter

This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele's Get Out. It surveys recent developments in critical race studies and introduces key concepts that have helped shape the field such as Black masculinity, white privilege, the Black body, and miscegenation. The book's analysis of Get Out situates it within the context of the American horror film, illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501351303

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813533678

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9780813533674

The QPR Miscellany

By: Ash Rose,Kevin Gallen

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The QPR Miscellany

By: Ash Rose,Kevin Gallen

The QPR Miscellany is the definitive set text for every fan of the world famous Rangers. Packed with facts, fun, gossip, nostalgia and conjecture, it looks back over their glorious history to celebrate the personalities, victories and controversies of the sport’s biggest name, culminating in their extraordinary return to the Premier League in 2010/11.Handily pocket-sized to pull out in the middle of those pub arguments over who was the fastest, dirtiest or biggest, this book will not only tell you who scored the most goals, what was the largest attendance or who was the longest-serving manager, but also who earned the most red cards and how the club became one of the richest in the world. Put down your pie and pick up a copy.

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The History Press

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0752490273

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9780752490274

Big Deal

Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

By: Kevin Winkler

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Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical

By: Kevin Winkler

Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and was a key figure in the rise of the director-choreographer in the Broadway musical. He also became the only star director of musicals of his era--a group that included Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd, and Harold Prince--to equal his Broadway success in films. Following his unprecedented triple crown of show business awards in 1973 (an Oscar for Cabaret, Emmy for Liza with a Z, and Tony for Pippin), Fosse assumed complete control of virtually every element of his projects. But when at last he had achieved complete autonomy, his final efforts, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, written and directed by Fosse, were rejected by audiences and critics. A fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical considers Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades. It traces his early dance years and the importance of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins on his work. It examines how each of the important women in his adult life--all dancers--impacted his career and influenced his dance aesthetic. Finally, the book investigates how his evolution as both artist and individual mirrored the social and political climate of his era and allowed him to comfortably ride a wave of cultural changes.

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Oxford University Press

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0199336814

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Undercurrents of Power

Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

By: Kevin Dawson

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Undercurrents of Power

Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

By: Kevin Dawson

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812224930

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Producing Power

Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace

By: Kevin Yelvington

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Producing Power

Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace

By: Kevin Yelvington

A study of ethnicity, gender, and class as integral elements of class structure.

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Temple University Press

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1439904456

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Reggae Routes

The Story of Jamaican Music

By: Kevin O'Brien Chang,Wayne Chen

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Reggae Routes

The Story of Jamaican Music

By: Kevin O'Brien Chang,Wayne Chen

Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each with a distinctive beat - ska, rocksteady, reggae and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966, rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat. The reggae era had two phases, 'early reggae' up to 1974 and 'roots reggae' up to 1983. Since 1983 dancehall has been the prevalent sound. The authors describe each stage in the development of the music, identifying the most popular songs and artists, highlighting the significant social, political and economic issues as they affected the musical scene. While they write from a Jamaican perspective, the intended audience is 'any person, local or foreign, interested in an intelligent discussion of reggae music and Jamaica.'.

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Temple University Press

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1566396298

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.

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Rutgers University Press

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The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

By: Kevin Baldeosingh

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The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

By: Kevin Baldeosingh

Tell me if I am mad,' Adam Avatar, a copper-skinned man with startling green eyes, asks Dr. Surendra Sankar, a psychiatrist in Trinidad. Aged forty-nine, there is some urgency in his request, since he fears that, very shortly, when he reaches his fiftieth birthday, he will die at the hands of his nemesis, the Shadowman. Adam believes he is nearly five hundred years old and has gone through nine previous incarnations, including living as a fifteenth century Amerindian, a Spanish conquistador, a Portuguese slaver and a Yoruba slave, a female pirate and a female stickfighter in nineteenth century Trinidad. Not unreasonably, Dr. Sankar reaches for his pad to prescribe drugs used to control delusional states." "As the consultations continue, Dr. Sankar's professional expertise is tested to the full. On the one hand, his patient appears to behave with impeccable rationality, on the other, the accounts Avatar brings of his previous lives suggest buried traumas of the most worrying kind." "And when Avatar's narratives of the experiences of his past selves are revealed to have an authenticity that cannot be explained away, Dr Sankar's perplexity grows." "Kevin Baldeosingh brings a powerful narrative drive to this unfolding mystery, a Joycean variety of historical Englishes to the accounts of Avatar's lives and a persuasive grasp of each historical period. But the novel also asks uncomfortable questions about the nature of power, the relationship between abuser and abused and the malleability of the person in different social environments." "Set in Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad, The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar is an epic account of the New World experience and a provocative enquiry into the nature of history and what it means to be a Caribbean person."--BOOK JACKET.

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1845230000

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Book's by Kevin Quashie

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

The Sovereignty of Quiet

The Sovereignty of Quiet

The Sovereignty of Quiet

The Sovereignty of Quiet

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out

Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

The QPR Miscellany

The QPR Miscellany

Big Deal

Big Deal

Undercurrents of Power

Undercurrents of Power

Producing Power

Producing Power

Reggae Routes

Reggae Routes

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

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