Black Cultural Production After Civil Rights

Robert J. Patterson is a professor of African American Studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020— Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dreams Reimagined: Political Possibilities and the Black Cultural Imagination1. Freedom Now: Black Power and the Literature of Slaver2. Generations: Slavery and the Post–Civil Rights Literary Imagination3. Slavery Now: 1970s Influence Post–20th-Century Films on American Slavery4. Movin' on Up—and Out: Remapping 1970s African American Visual Culture5. "Can You Kill": Vietnam, Black Power, and Militancy in Black Feminist Literature6. The Future in Black and White: Fran Ross, Adrienne Kennedy, and Post–Civil Rights Black Feminist7. Renegotiating Racial Discourse: The Blues, Black Feminist Thought, and Post–Civil Rights8. From Blaxploitation to Black Macho: The Angry Black Woman Comes of Age9. From the Ground Up: Readers and Publishers in the Making of a Literary Public10. A Woman's Trip: Domestic Violence and Black Feminist Healing in Ntozake Shange's For ColoredAfterword: Post-Soul: Post–Civil Rights Considerations in the 21st CenturyContributorsIndexBack cover