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Souls of Mixed Folk : Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (2011, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804756309

ISBN-139780804756303

eBay Product ID (ePID)99580144

Product Key Features

Number of Pages308 Pages

Publication NameSouls of Mixed Folk : Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAmerican / African American, American / General

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorMichele Elam

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-036789

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"The Souls of Mixed Folksbrings into sharp and dynamic focus the crucial and complex reworkings of racial identity in the post civil rights era. Elam's deep historical insight coupled with her spot-on analysis of the conversation on mixed race in contemporary culture and politics will have a powerful impact on how we remember this pivotal moment. This book is a must have."--Tricia Rose, Brown University, " The Souls of Mixed Folks brings into sharp and dynamic focus the crucial and complex reworkings of racial identity in the post civil rights era. Elam's deep historical insight coupled with her spot-on analysis of the conversation on mixed race in contemporary culture and politics will have a powerful impact on how we remember this pivotal moment. This book is a must have."--Tricia Rose, Brown University, "Michele Elam presents a richly interwoven study of works of performance art, graphic narrative and English literature key to an American 'evolving coalition of interracial couples, families with transracial adoptees, and young people self-identifying as mixed race'."—Ruth Tait, Ethinicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, "This is a brilliant, timely and thorough study of a major topic in American culture. Elam elegantly maneuvers through the thickets of representation. Her scholarship is impeccable and her insights profound. The Souls of Mixed Folk will be read widely and cited as a definitive study of this complicated issue."-Jennifer D. Brody, Duke University, "This is a brilliant, timely and thorough study of a major topic in American culture. Elam elegantly maneuvers through the thickets of representation. Her scholarship is impeccable and her insights profound. The Souls of Mixed Folk will be read widely and cited as a definitive study of this complicated issue."—Jennifer D. Brody, Duke University, "This is a brilliant, timely and thorough study of a major topic in American culture. Elam elegantly maneuvers through the thickets of representation. Her scholarship is impeccable and her insights profound.The Souls of Mixed Folkwill be read widely and cited as a definitive study of this complicated issue."—Jennifer D. Brody, Duke University, "Re-imagining the truths we hold to be self evident and writing with with discernment, cogency, and wit, Michele Elam poses the question of the color line for the twenty-first century—'What line?'—across a dazzling array of media and genres."—Joseph Roach, Yale University, "Re-imagining the truths we hold to be self evident and writing with with discernment, cogency, and wit, Michele Elam poses the question of the color line for the twenty-first century--'What line?'--across a dazzling array of media and genres."--Joseph Roach, Yale University, " The Souls of Mixed Folks brings into sharp and dynamic focus the crucial and complex reworkings of racial identity in the post civil rights era. Elam's deep historical insight coupled with her spot-on analysis of the conversation on mixed race in contemporary culture and politics will have a powerful impact on how we remember this pivotal moment. This book is a must have."—Tricia Rose, Brown University, "Re-imagining the truths we hold to be self evident and writing with with discernment, cogency, and wit, Michele Elam poses the question of the color line for the twenty-first century-'What line?'-across a dazzling array of media and genres."-Joseph Roach, Yale University, "Michele Elam presents a richly interwoven study of works of performance art, graphic narrative and English literature key to an American 'evolving coalition of interracial couples, families with transracial adoptees, and young people self-identifying as mixed race'."-Ruth Tait, Ethinicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, "Michele Elam presents a richly interwoven study of works of performance art, graphic narrative and English literature key to an American 'evolving coalition of interracial couples, families with transracial adoptees, and young people self-identifying as mixed race'."--Ruth Tait, Ethinicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, " The Souls of Mixed Folks brings into sharp and dynamic focus the crucial and complex reworkings of racial identity in the post civil rights era. Elam's deep historical insight coupled with her spot-on analysis of the conversation on mixed race in contemporary culture and politics will have a powerful impact on how we remember this pivotal moment. This book is a must have."-Tricia Rose, Brown University, "This is a brilliant, timely and thorough study of a major topic in American culture. Elam elegantly maneuvers through the thickets of representation. Her scholarship is impeccable and her insights profound. The Souls of Mixed Folk will be read widely and cited as a definitive study of this complicated issue."--Jennifer D. Brody, Duke University

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal810.9/352905

SynopsisThe Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine post-race aesthetics and politics., The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works--novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations--as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical. Reorienting attention to the cultural invention of mixed race from the social sciences to the humanities, Elam considers the creative work of Lezley Saar, Aaron McGruder, Nate Creekmore, Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, Emily Raboteau, Carl Hancock Rux, and Dave Chappelle. All these writers and artists address mixed race as both an aesthetic challenge and a social concern, and together, they gesture toward a poetics of social justice for the "mulatto millennium." The Souls of Mixed Folk seeks a middle way between competing hagiographic and apocalyptic impulses in mixed race scholarship, between those who proselytize mixed race as the great hallelujah to the "race problem" and those who can only hear the alarmist bells of civil rights destruction. Both approaches can obscure some of the more critically astute engagements with new millennial iterations of mixed race by the multi-generic cohort of contemporary writers, artists, and performers discussed in this book. The Souls of Mixed Folk offers case studies of their creative work in an effort to expand the contemporary idiom about mixed race in the so-called post-race moment, asking how might new millennial expressive forms suggest an aesthetics of mixed race? And how might such an aesthetics productively reimagine the relations between race, art, and social equity in the twenty-first century?

LC Classification NumberPS231