Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black CulturesSmall Acts charts the emergence of a distinctive cultural sensibility that accomplishes the difficult task of being simultaneously both black and English. Straddling the field of popular cultural forms, Paul Gilroy shows how the African diaspora born from slavery has given rise to a web of intimate social relationships in which African-American, Caribbean and now black English elements combine. Discussions of Spike Lee and Frank Bruno, record sleeves, photographs, film and literature from Beloved to Yardie are used to show how new and exciting possibilities have arisen from the transnational flows that create cultural links between the global African diaspora. Small Acts is a seminal work by an important young critic that changes the terms on which black culture will be understood and argued about. |
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Introduction | 1 |
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The peculiarities of the black English | 49 |
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aesthetic African diaspora Afrocentric anti-racist articulated audience authentic become BELL HOOKS black Americans black artists black arts movement black Atlantic black Britain black communities black cultural black experience black music black nationalism black political black poor black popular culture black settlers black vernacular Britain's black British C. L. R. James Caribbean complex concept constructed contemporary crisis critical cultural politics debate discourse distinctive dominant economic emerged ethnic absolutism example film Frank gender global groups hip-hop idea ideology images imperial important intellectual Isaac Julien issue labour Lee's live London means modern modernist consciousness narrative nation-state PAUL GILROY performance perspective political culture populist post-modern problem produced race racial racism radical record relationship Richard Wright role sense significant slavery slaves social space Spike Lee strategies struggles symbolic term things tion tradition tural ture W. E. B. Du Bois