Blackademic crowdsourcing!
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📚" title="Books" aria-label="Emoji: Books"> If you were to teach or take a class on #Blackaestheticstudies, as in a study of Blackness as an **aesthetic** principle (rather than an exclusively social one, tho they are obvi connected), what texts would you (want to) engage?
Here are some I’m considering (& an indication of the vibe I’m grooving on):
Stephen Best, None Like Us
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like-us
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics
Stephen Best, None Like Us
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like-us
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics
Cheryl Finley, Committed to Memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/har... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/har... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics
Kevin Quashie, The Sovereignty if Quiet
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553115/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sover... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553115/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sover... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies
Nicole Fleetwood, On Racial Icons
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies
Michael Boyce Gillespie, Film Blackness
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blackness
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blac... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blackness
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blac... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies