{"id":612,"date":"2014-10-20T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=612"},"modified":"2015-04-20T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T10:20:13","slug":"racial-justice-and-the-politics-political-aesthetics-of-black-american-cultural-and-artistic-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Racial justice and the politics (political aesthetics) of black American cultural and artistic production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uptight-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-681 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Uptight-poster-262x395.jpg\" alt=\"Uptight poster\" width=\"262\" height=\"395\"><\/a>As part of this undertaking, I&nbsp;am looking backward to the overlooked militant political films of the 1970s \u201cBlaxploitation\u201d cycle\u2014contributing a&nbsp;chapter, \u201cMilitant Blax: Screening Revolution\u201d, for a&nbsp;Wiley-Blackwell volume on African American film. I&nbsp;am also looking forward, analysing the problems confronting black cultural producers in the contexts of neo-liberal and\/or \u201cdisaster capitalism\u201d, the post-2008 meltdown, and the possibility of a \u201cpost-racial\u201d society in the age of Obama. As part of this research agenda I&nbsp;am contributing a&nbsp;piece, \u201cBlack Art in the Age of \u2018New Jim Crow\u2019: Delimiting the Scope of Racial Justice and Film Production since Rodney King\u201d for a&nbsp;collection to be published by Ashgate on the African American experience since&nbsp;1992.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This research is a&nbsp;continuation and development of work already published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of this undertaking, I&nbsp;am looking backward to the overlooked militant political films of the 1970s \u201cBlaxploitation\u201d cycle\u2014contributing a&nbsp;chapter, \u201cMilitant Blax: Screening Revolution\u201d, for a&nbsp;Wiley-Blackwell volume on African American film. I&nbsp;am also looking forward, analysing the problems confronting black cultural producers in the contexts of neo-liberal and\/or \u201cdisaster capitalism\u201d,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"coauthors":[52],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}