Blackademic crowdsourcing! 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 
#Blackaesthetics

Cheryl Finley, Committed to Memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory
#Blackaesthetics

Kevin Quashie, The Sovereignty if Quiet
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553115/
#Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies

Nicole Fleetwood, On Racial Icons
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156
#Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies

Michael Boyce Gillespie, Film Blackness
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blackness 
#Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies