Amy Abugo Ongiri Livres

The book delves into the interplay between the Black Power and Black Arts movements and their influence on postwar African American popular culture. It examines how the construction of "authentic blackness" emerged from a political reliance on oppositional imagery. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that combines cinema studies and music theory, the author highlights the development of a distinct Black aesthetic rooted in the visual iconography of the Black Power movement and the urban vernacular celebrated by the Black Arts movement.

A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author. Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.