Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black AestheticsBlack is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.
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Contents
Assembly Not Birth | 1 |
Theorizing the Invisible | 36 |
Theorizing Visuality | 43 |
A Detour | 51 |
Phronesis and Power | 69 |
The Politics of Black Aesthetics | 77 |
Dark Lovely Yet And Or How To Love Black Bodies While | 104 |
Introduction | 132 |
Varieties of Authenticity | 138 |
From Exegesis to Ethics | 144 |
The Kente Case Revisited | 151 |
It Sucks That I Robbed You Or Ambivalence | 182 |
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