SoulStirrers : Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
Cover -- SOULSTIRRERS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Counterpoetics of the Neo-Ancestral Impulse -- Acts of Memory: An Introductory Comment -- Chapter 1 How I Became a Neo-Ancestralist: African American Art and Artists in Cincinnati -- Chapter 2 The Neo-Ancestral Impulse in Cincinnati -- Chapter 3 The Neo-Ancestralist Aesthetic -- Chapter 4 Neo-Ancestralist Art as Counterhegemonic Expression -- Chapter 5 Bloods: The Neo-Ancestral Impulse in African American Art -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Neo-Ancestralist Online Manifesto -- Notes -- References -- Index.
A study of the creative infusion of "African-ness" and social justice into African American art traditions.