TY - BOOK AU - Black Public Sphere Collective TI - The Black public sphere: a public culture book AV - E185.B627.B533 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - Chicago, Illinois PB - University of Chicago Press KW - African Americans KW - Social conditions KW - 1975- KW - Popular culture KW - United States KW - Politics and government N1 - 2; Critical memory and the Black public sphere; Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Malcolm X and the Black public sphere : conversionists versus culturalists; Manthia Diawara -- "After the love has gone" : bio-politics and etho-poetics in the Black public sphere; Paul Gilroy -- "Can you be BLACK and look at this?" : reading the Rodney King video(s) / Elizabeth Alexander --; Photo essays: Hope reclaimed : South African elections, May 1994. Refuge refused : Haitians, borders, and democracy --; Negotiating and transforming the public sphere : African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom; Elsa Barkley Brown --; Race, identity and political activism : the shifting contours of the African American public sphere; Steven Gregory --; Black Cinderella? : race and the public sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard --; Photo essay: Black global public spheres --; A Black counterpublic? : economic earthquakes, racial agenda(s), and Black politics; Michael C. Dawson -- "A nation of thieves" : consumption, commerce, and the Black public sphere; Regina Austin --; X marks the spot : the ambiguities of African trading in the commerce of the Black public sphere; Rosemary J. Coombe and Paul Stoller --; Culture versus commerce : the marketing of Black popular music; Reebe Garofalo --; Check yo self, before you wreck yo self : variations on a political theme in rap music and popular culture; Todd Boyd --; University presses and the Black reader; Elizabeth Maguire --; Afterword : mapping the Black public sphere; Thomas C. Holt; 2 ER -