African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. This explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. This explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.
KEVIN QUASHIE is an associate professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. He is the author of Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject (Rutgers University Press).
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Introduction 1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior 2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender 3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention 4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism 5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer Conclusion Acknowledgments Permissions Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction 1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior 2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender 3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention 4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism 5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer Conclusion Acknowledgments Permissions Notes Bibliography Index
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