Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
by Rebecca Walker (editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Description
This wide-ranging anthology brings together sixteen influential writers, artists, and cultural thinkers to examine the many meanings and manifestations of Black cool. Moving across music, fashion, film, literature, art, and everyday life, the contributors explore how style, self-definition, resistance, and cultural innovation shape Black identity. Rather than reducing cool to a single attitude or aesthetic, the collection reveals it as fluid, layered, and continually evolving across generations and communities. Provocative and richly eclectic, the book offers a thought-provoking portrait of Black creativity and cultural power.
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paperback
Soft Skull Press
Published Jan 1, 2012
164 pages
ISBN: 9781593764173
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First Published
2012
Language
eng
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