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... Authored by David Leeming, a biographer of both Baldwin and Delaney who also served as Baldwin’s secretary-assistant from 1964 to 1967, this chapter recounts key episodes in the relationship between Baldwin and Delaney. biography African American literature, Black arts care ethics ...

... their presence as a persistent, achronological circulation throughout Baldwin’s literary works—intertwined, omnipresent, and in constant tension within the universe of his literary imagination. fathers queer family African American literature Black arts American expatriates ...

... literary imagination. fathers queer family African American literature Black arts American expatriates ...

... alive through cultural institutions. Christine Johnson valorized Garvey and Malcolm in her children’s textbooks geared toward African American youth. Georgina Thornton Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr. Liberia Marcus Garvey Institute Black Power ...

... that is based on terms articulated by Toni Morrison, namely, a theory of liquidity in the arts. jazz studies African American arts Toni Morrison blues “Sonny’s Blues” ...

... generations of writers have reflected on and documented what it meant for them to read Baldwin. Rachel Ghansah, Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward are among a group of contemporary Black writers whose comments and published writings pointedly declare their readings of Baldwin as inheritance. African American...

...) that the character Sonny must perform as a pianist, and because those movements extend and echo the movements of the drummer in Black music, the essay also links Baldwin’s story and Delaney’s art with the music of the great drummer Elvin Jones. drumming jazz studies African American arts blues “Sonny’s...

..., recording several key experiences: the college graduation, a brother-in-law’s death, the impact of motherhood, and years of teaching the African American autobiographical tradition to undergraduates in a small liberal arts college in New York City. The prologue introduces the story of a change in a white...

... published after Delaney’s death. African American art modernist portraiture queer studies Rotimi Fani-Kayode Samuel Delany In this chapter, Shawn Anthony Christian explores how the friendship between James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney constituted an instance of Black artistic relation...

... in response to artists’ demands and protests. The introduction ends with a survey of the literature on the relationships between artists of color and art museums. art museums artists’ demands cultural equity African American art ...

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... the reader/viewer/listener into an abstractionist self-interrogation, one that shatters preconceptions and drives us to that place where we must disassociate ourselves from ourselves in order to do the close interrogation needed for social renewal. jazz studies African American arts “Sonny’s Blues...

... with the long-accepted Mercator projection, had a significant bearing on the African American planetary imaginary. Mercator’s map rapidly lost its narrative power during World War II. Instead, an innovative cartography adopting an aerial perspective—popularized by Richard Edes Harrison’s “One World, One War...

..., like Robert Hall, see Berlinet al., Freedom’s Soldiers, 83–175;andEdwinS.Redkey, ed., A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). For a sense of how much their service actually changed perceptions...

..., like Robert Hall, see Berlinet al., Freedom’s Soldiers, 83–175;andEdwinS.Redkey, ed., A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). For a sense of how much their service actually changed perceptions...

..., like Robert Hall, see Berlinet al., Freedom’s Soldiers, 83–175;andEdwinS.Redkey, ed., A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). For a sense of how much their service actually changed perceptions...

..., like Robert Hall, see Berlinet al., Freedom’s Soldiers, 83–175;andEdwinS.Redkey, ed., A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). For a sense of how much their service actually changed perceptions...

..., like Robert Hall, see Berlinet al., Freedom’s Soldiers, 83–175;andEdwinS.Redkey, ed., A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992). For a sense of how much their service actually changed perceptions...