Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties

by Lisa M Corrigan and Lisa M. Corrigan

Book Overview

Honorable Mention Recipient of the 2021 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address by the National Communication Association

In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic." Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in Black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the Black liberation movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496827953
• ISBN13: 9781496827951
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"