Black Post-Blackness Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse Contributors: Karen Ahlquist

Contributors: Karen Ahlquist

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Black Post-Blackness Elizabeth A. Theiss-Morse Contributors: Karen AhlquistA 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post black." Black Post Blackness compares the black avant