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Thinking While Black

Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation

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This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution.

Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival research, politics, film theory, and pop culture, Daniel McNeil examines two of the most celebrated and controversial Black thinkers working today. Thinking While Black takes us on a transatlantic journey through the radical movements that rocked against racism in 1970s Detroit and Birmingham, the rhythms of everyday life in 1980s London and New York, and the hype and hostility generated by Oscar-winning films like 12 Years a Slave.

The lives and careers of White and Gilroy—along with creative contemporaries of the post–civil rights era such as Bob Marley, Toni Morrison, Stuart Hall, and Pauline Kael—should matter to anyone who craves deeper and fresher thinking about cultural industries, racism, nationalism, belonging, and identity.

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Daniel McNeil

DANIEL MCNEIL is a professor in the department of gender studies at Queen’s University and the Queen’s national scholar chair in Black studies. His scholarship and teaching in Black Atlantic studies explore how movement, travel, and relocation have transformed and boosted creative development, the writing of cultural history, and the calculation of political choices. He is the author of Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic and, with Yana Meerzon and David Dean, a co-editor of Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. He lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.
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In this preface chapter the author detailed their own acedmic career in Canada, intentions for the book and exploring the rebel nation of the 1960s and 1970s. 9 $0.90

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In this chapter the author introduced the work of Paul Gilroy, a British scholar of global African American Studies and Armond White, an American music and film critic. 18 $1.80

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This chapter detailed Paul Gilroy’s life after 1968 and his interest in the rebel spirit of black American and Caribbean musicians. Topics include British immigration policy, political … 32 $3.20

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In this chapter the author examined the revolutionary ideas and culture of 1960’s Detroit through Armond White’s reviews of various media (film, theatre, music, and literature) … 20 $2.00

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In this chapter the author further examines Paul Gilroy’s work and his contributions to cultural criticism and black academia. The topics explored in this chapter included, <Young Soul … 20 $2.00

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In this chapter the author examines Armond White’s wildly overlooked film criticism of the 1980’s and 1990’s to shed light on his contributions to resistance aesthetics and film … 44 $4.40

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In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … 23 $2.30

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In this chapter the author reflects on Armond White’s and Paul Gilroy’s careers as film and culture critics and intellectuals within the rebel generation. The author specifically … 20 $2.00