Black Is Beautiful, A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics by Taylor, Paul C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments

Between Baraka and Brandom

Chapter 1: Assembly, Not Birth

1 Introduction 2 Inquiry and Assembly 3 On Blackness 4 On the Black Aesthetic Tradition 5 Black Aesthetics as/and Philosophy 6 Conclusion

Chapter 2: No Negroes in Connecticut

1 Introduction 2 Setting the Stage: Blacking Up Zoe 3 Theorizing the (In)visible 4 Theorizing Visuality 5 Two Varieties of Black Invisibility: Presence and Personhood 6 From Persons to Characters: A Detour 7 Two More Varieties of Black Invisibility: Perspectives and Plurality 8 Unseeing Nina Simone 9 Conclusion: Phronesis and Power

Chapter 3: Beauty to Set the World Right

1 Introduction 2 Blackness and the Political 3 Politics and Aesthetics 4 The Politics–Aesthetics Nexus in Black; or, “The Black Nation: A Garvey Production” 5 Autonomy and Separatism 6 Propaganda, Truth, and Art 7 What is Life but Life? Reading Du Bois 8 Apostles of Truth and Right 9 On “Propaganda” 10 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Dark Lovely Yet And; Or, How To Love Black Bodies While Hating Black People

1 Introduction 2 Circumscribing the Topic: Definitions and Distinctions 3 Circumscribing the Topic, cont’d: Context and Scope 4 The Cases 5 Reading the Cases 6 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Roots and Routes

1 Introduction 2 An Easy Case: The Germans in Yorubaland 3 A Harder Case: Kente Capers 4 Varieties of Authenticity 5 From Exegesis to Ethics 6 The Kente Case, Revisited

Chapter 6: Make It Funky; Or, Music’s Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm

1 Introduction 2 Beyond the How-Possible: Kivy’s Questions 3 Stimulus, Culture, Race 4 Preliminaries: Rhythm, Brains, and Race Music 5 The Flaw in the Funk 6 (Soul) Power to the People 7 Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters 8 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Conclusion Index End User License Agreement