Black Aesthetic movement
Black Americans
as nonparticipants in polity
as sui generis, tabulae rasae
See also African Americans
Black Arts Movement
criticizes Baldwin, Ellison
and Rivington Place
of U.S. turns to Britain to retheorize ethnicity
Wright’s status as unaccountable
The Black Atlantic (Gilroy)
Black Audio Film Collective
Black Boy (Wright)
Black British cinema. See Film
Black British cultural criticism
and Fanon
and movements of ethnicist self-affirmation
and new politics of representation
role of
Black London Renaissance
Black nationalism
Du Bois rebuked by NAACP
as homophobic
identity becomes sexualized in 1960s
and Richard Wright
Black Power: A Record of Reactions (Wright)
Black Power movement
Black representation. See Politics of representation
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon)
Black Studies
Blackwood, Maureen
Blake, William
Blow, Charles M.
Blyden, Edward Wilmot
Bourdieu, Pierre
Brantlinger, Patrick
Brenkman, John
on African Americans identity, citizenship
on civic humanism, homogeneity of citizenry
connects multiculturalism to democracy
on neoconservatives/ neoliberals citizenship
British Cultural Studies
begins with reappropriation of Burke
identity politics retheorized
leading from Hall’s voluntarist strain
retroactive mythification in Britain
Brown, Derek
Bubble model. See Culturalist model or bubble model
Buchanan, Pat
opposes concessive pluralism
speech on war for the soul of America
vandals and visigoths of multiculturalism
Burke, Edmund
anti-foundationalism with respect for cultures
colonial plundering of traditional India economy
critique of imperialism
drainage theory
founds critical modernity, industrialization
as marginal to social order/personal background
on oppression
prosecution of Warren Hastings
relativizing strain
on representational democracy
self-positions, identity
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Canon wars. See also Culture wars of 1980s and 1990s
Carby, Hazel
on multiculturalism
and search for usable past
on urban vernacular forms
Carroll, Lewis
Césaire, Aimé
Cheney, Lynn
Churchill, Winston
Citizenship of African Americans
Clarke, Kenneth
Cleaver, Eldridge
Cleopatra
Clinton, Bill
Colonial discourse
as all discourse
of Benita Parry
for Bhabha
Bhabha on Fanon’s Manichean delirium
global aspects of Fanon
JanMohamed’s Lacanian reading of
Spivak on native informant syndrome
Colonial guilt
Colonial literature
Colonial paradigm of Frantz Fanon
ascendance, global aspects, questioned
with enmity between native and invader
Colonialism
drainage theory
economics
as liberating, modernizing force
as oppressive, criminal
plunder by governments
and sexualization
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Memmi)
Commodification
Conservatives
backlash to canon reformation
cultural
and cultural diversity issues
electoral
on PC
and restrictions on free speech
See also Right, the
Coolidge, Calvin
Criticism
with colonial paradigm development
as commodified
moralizing strain in
need not be ethico-political
A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Marcuse, Moore, Wolff)
Critique of the commodity
Cullen, Countee
Cultural diversity
Cultural elites
Cultural identities
and conflict/equilibrium of values
cultural products preserved
defined by structural, positional features
ethnicity critiqued
lower-class concept
as multiculturalism
radical critiques of
and relativism
replace multiracial
Cultural imperialism
Burkean critique of
Marx’s satire vs. Burke’s respect for
rhetoric deploring
Cultural Literacy (Hirsch)
Cultural literacy project
as common knowledge base
and democratizing aspect of mass culture
Cultural politics
according to Young
leading from Hall’s voluntarist strain
Cultural retrieval
of Britain compared to Harlem Renaissance
institutionalized by Rivington Place
return to 1960s for usable models
Cultural Studies
agenda set, developed
intertwined with neocolonialism
revived in U.S. in 1990s
tendency toward acrimony
Culturalist model or bubble model
Culture and Society (Williams)
Culture wars of 1980s and 1990s
and black British cultural criticism
Buchanan’s multiculturalism speech
Hirsch’s cultural literacy project
multiculturalism’s limitations
as political
produce dichotomies to cultural issues
as term
Decolonization as utopian moment
Decter, Midge
Democracy
connected to multicultural agenda
liberal core values
representational
Derrida, Jacques
Diaspora aesthetics
Diasporic criticism
Diasporic culture
Diawara, Manthia
Dictators as Westernized elites in Africa
Diop, Alioune
as Black Socrates
described by Baldwin
“The Disciple” poem (Wilde)
Dixon, Melvin
Dollimore, Jonathan
Douglas, Alfred
Douglass, Frederick
Drainage theory
D’Souza, Dinesh
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dukakis, Michael
Durant, Will and Ariel
Dworkin, Andrea
East India Trading Company
Ellison, Ralph
seemingly averse to Africa, Africans
as victim of Black Arts Movement
views Africa in state of barbarism
The Empire Strikes Back (Centre for Contemporary Culture)
Encounter magazine
Enlightenment, the, or Enlightenment rationalism
Epistemic violence of colonialism
Essentialism
Burke as anti-essentialist theorist
identity politics linked to representation politics
and representation as delegation critique
and
shift from race to ethnicity
Ethnic absolutism
Ethnicity
commodified, as Benetton’s model
and cultural fundamentalism
leaves out history, power relations
radical critiques of
reinstated by Hall
replaces race
vocabulary ascends
Evans, Erick Ray
Ezekiel
“The Fact of Blackness” (Fanon)
Fanon, Frantz
background depicted by Memmi
Bhabha’s colonial discourse
contrasted to contemporary theory
decolonization as tabula rasa
on destruction of racial history
juxtaposes socioanalysis and psychoanalysis
Manichean delirium
on psychoanalytic interpretation
reinstated, reexamined, as global theorist
on Sartre’s account of Négritude
“Fanonian Spaces” (Feuchtwang)
Feminism
diasporic
of early 1990s culture wars
in U.S., and Marxism, black studies
Feuchtwang, Stephan
Field, Sally
Film
Akomfrah’s Black Audio Film Collective
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks
Looking for Langston discussed
as vulnerable to political reproach
Firbank, Ronald
First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
Fish, Stanley
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks (film)
Free speech movement. See Hate speech bans
FreedomWorks
Freud, Sigmund
Gay rights
Gayle, Addison
Gender identity
and the culturalist model
in filmmaking
historized
includes sexism
Geographical ethics
Gibson, Nigel
Gilroy, Paul
on black nationalism as a beginning
on commodification
populist modernism
on race, nation
on traditions of blacks in Britain
on Wright as model for ethnicist affirmation
Godwin, William
Gopnik, Adam
Gramsci, Antonio
Greenblatt, Stephen
Guillory, John
canon debate resurrects authors
liberal pluralism
lower-class identity concept
new subcultures constituted
Haiti
Hall, Stuart
calls for politics of articulation
on cultural identities
distinguishes among Williams changes
featured in Frantz Fanon film
histories invite imaginative reconstruction
on infinite dispersal
links British Cultural Studies and black workers
in Looking for Langston
reinstates ethnicity
self-positions, identity
with voluntarist strain
Hanson, F. Allan
Harlem Renaissance
compared to British cultural retrieval, Rivington Place
evoked in Looking for Langston
as “gay as it was black,”
Hastings, Warren
Hate speech bans
difficulties of challenging bigotry
restrictions converge from early 1970s
Heath, Stephen
Helms, Jesse
Hemphill, Essex
Herskovits, Melville
Higham, John
Hill, Anita
Hirsch, E. D.
The History of British India (Mill)
Hitchens, Robert
Hoggart, Richard
institutional founder of Cultural Studies
Left Burkean
self-positions, identities
Hollis, Martin
Home (Baraka)
Homophobia
in black aesthetic, power, movements
as part of sexuality structure
Homosexuality
Hughes, Langston
as “20th century Representative Negro,”
death
Harlem Renaissance roll call
in Looking for Langston
on Negro Renaissance, ordinary people
Hurston, Zora Neale
The Idea of a Social Science (Winch)
Identity politics
distinguished from liberation discourse
emerge as diaspora aesthetics
and Fanon’s vision of the new man
with Hall’s reinstatement of ethnicity
linked to politics of representation
in Looking for Langston
and notion of lower-class identity
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Wayans)
Imperialism. See Cultural imperialism
India
Burke’s campaign against British administration
economy plundered
prosecution of Hastings by Burke
Infinite dispersal politics
Iniva (Institute for International Visual Arts)
Isserman, Maurice
Jake and the Fat Man (television program)
Jameson, Fredric
JanMohamed, Abdul
advances Lacanian account of colonial discourses
critiques Bhabha’s reading of Fanon
reinstates alterity
Joe Isuzu character in television ads
Johnson, Lionel
Jones, LeRoi
Julien, Isaac
engages in cultural retrieval, reconstruction
film dialogues on identity, desire, history
film techniques discussed
Frantz Fanon film produced
Looking for Langston film produced
on new politics of representation
presumed polarity with Spike Lee
recasts black representation debate
Kellgren, Nina
Kimball, Roger
King, Don
King, Martin Luther
King, Rodney
Kinsley, Michael
Kitt, Eartha
Kristol, Irving
Kristol, William
Lacan, Jacques
Lacanian psychoanalysis
critique advanced by Heath
as model of colonial discourse
Laclau, Ernesto
hegemonic articulation
on politics of representation
revises Gramsci
Lamming, George
Lee, Spike
attacked for Air Jordan commercials
and Isaac Julien
Liberal individualism
Liberal politics. See Academic left
Limbaugh, Rush
Literature
Macaulay’s remark
as oppositional
See also Colonial literature; Migrancy literature
Locke, Alain
Long memory
Looking for Langston (film)
as avant-garde
critiques identity politics, sexual politics
evokes historical Harlem Renaissance
interplay of text, voices
mirror tableaux used
as rebuttal to black power homophobia
Macaulay, Thomas
Macey, David
MacIntyre, Alasdair
MacKinnon, Catherine
Macmillan, Harold
Madonna
Manichean delirium
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Marcuse, Herbert
Martinique
Marx, Karl
lauds Britain’s colonization
satirizes Hindu cultural practices
uses Burke’s drainage theory
Marxism
literary, in U.S.
and portrayal of Burke
McGann, Jerome
McKay, Claude
Meatless Days (Suleri)
Melquior, J. G.
Memmi, Albert
depersonalization of the colonized
Fanon’s background
on psychoanalysis vs. Marxism
third world of no color
Mercer, Kobena
account of contemporary aesthetic
commitment to archaeological inquiry
debates populist modernism with Gilroy
on manipulation of commodity forms
on mythification of British Cultural Studies
on new politics of representation
recasts black representation debate
Micheaux, Oscar
Michelangelo
Migrancy literature
Mill, James
Moore, Barrington
Moralism. See New moralism
Morality
of Asia as equal to English
distinguished from moralism
with minimized value conflict as acceptable
rhetoric on right and left distinguished
Morrison, Toni
“Motion to reform
Representation” speech (Burke)
Mouffe, Chantal
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Multiculturalism
limitations
not agency for radical transformation
relativism as specter
Multiculturalism paradigm
described
excludes dominant/ subordinate culture concept
tends to occlude race
Murphy Brown (television program)
Mushnick, Phil
NAACP
Image Awards
rebukes Du Bois
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Native informant syndrome
Native Son (Wright)
Négritude Movement
and Fanon
founded by Senghor and Césaire
Sartre’s account
New moralism
of 1980s and 1990s
distinguished from morality
Ninth Report (Burke)
1956 Paris conference. See First International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
“1968: Periodizing Postmodern Politics and Identity” (Mercer)
Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Gates and McKay)
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Gilbert and Gubar)
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
Nugent, Bruce
on black masculinity
Harlem Renaissance roll call
in Looking for Langston
Oakeshott, Michael
Obama, Barack
and culture wars
free speech questions surface from the right
“On the Moral Economy of Blackness” lecture (Gilroy)
Oppositional criticism
dilemmas
of Fanon
of JanMohamed
of Williams