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This chapter offers, in conversation with black feminist and black queer studies scholars, a theory of black avant-gardist practice that commits radically to an improved world for the planet’s most devastated, injured, and neglected populations. It describes in specific detail the four pervasive, abstractionist aesthetic strategies in post—civil rights black expressive culture—grotesquerie, hollowness, cacophony, ecstasy—that relate and respond to new (updated and abstracted) regimes of globalized racial terror. These four aesthetic strategies, or expressive modes, offer a glimpse into the tactics of black solidarity, sociality, and survival that subtend contemporary African diasporic art forms and constitute the core inquiry of Millennial Style.

avant-garde, post-civil rights, Saeed Jones

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