...This concluding chapter summarizes the main goal of the book: analyzing aesthetics to expose, connect, and remake the forms of one's desire for an ordered reality and competing need for “escape” from that order. In particular, the book rethinks “the politics of our lack of knowledge” around race...

.... Using a history of emotions and Law and Humanities approach, the book argues that in enlisting an affective aesthetics to invoke emotions such as desire, disgust, melancholia, embarrassment, terror, tenderness, and happiness, Blackstone encouraged readers to feel as much as reason...

...New York City hip hop artists actively engage in the transformative and disruptive power of three aesthetic forms often conceived as disparate, distinct, and antagonistic: Black aesthetics, queer aesthetics, and hip hop aesthetics. Bronx Brooklyn NY Chicago disco music house music Los Angeles...

... stereotypes aesthetic Du Bois W E B ethnographic realism Hopkins Pauline Miller Christopher L identity Liberia white supremacy Blyden Edward Wilmot colonial modernity overrepresentation Wynter Sylvia Banana Bottom McKay C Efuru Nwapa Hurston Zora Neale McKay Claude Nwapa Flora Their Eyes...

...Considering the gains and losses of translating racial and political critique into minor forms, this chapter examines the form and aesthetics of online comics to locate ways racial justice can be visually designed and communicated in digital environments. The circulation of activist media within...

...For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a global racial order and to undo it. This book offers methods for reading experimental literature and art produced by racially minoritized authors and artists working...

...-century photographic technology. The introduction also offers a “brief history of expression,” understanding expression to be a “loose seam in Western epistemologies.” It avers that expression is the primary category photography unsettled in nineteenth-century Anglo-Atlantic scientific and aesthetic...

... of experience and knowledge. This type of diversity offers a necessary degree of dynamism to a scene. Chapter 6 shows the process by which aesthetic awakenings, aesthetic connoisseurship, and aesthetic entrepreneurship happen. All three are forms of socialization that require the acquisition and use of sensuous...

...This chapter establishes the scope of Ricanness, beginning with key historical and colonial moments between the United States and Puerto Rico, and explicating the book’s aesthetic and philosophical framework. The author introduces seminal philosophers such as Fanon and Heidegger to establish...

... of grotesque aesthetics. Building off of Kobena Mercer’s scholarship, the conclusion restages and develops this term through Minaj’s artifice-laced performance in the music video accompaniment to West’s single, a particularly fraught piece that was swiftly banned upon its release. This discussion...

..., it demonstrates how racial oscillation operates in Matsumiya’s phantasmagoria by evoking the trope of masking. It shows how Matsumiya redeploys kawaii aesthetics to mask and unmask race during her social media interactions as a witty way to strike back at harassers and project her bold and bodacious neoliberal...

... perceive aesthetic pleasure as a social relation that has been shaped by a global racial order since at least the eighteenth century. Offering a summary of the scholarly debates on aesthetics, politics, race, and the avant-garde, the introduction explains how a minoritarian aesthetic helps us understand...

...Chapter 1 engages Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment while arguing that Black aesthetics must be a starting point for any conversation on the liberatory potential of the aesthetic. Focusing on the Harlem Renaissance and its legacy as a historical punctum, it examines classic...

... noxious air affects bodies, minds, and moods. Building on work in material ecocriticism, geography, race studies, and sensory studies, it develops an environmental framework for studying olfactory aesthetics in works of literature and conceptual art. Gain Powers R odorant molecules Powers Richard...

... for a curatorial approach to Blackstone's work that takes into account his exercise of affective aesthetics and its impact on the history of emotions in law. It closes with a summary of the chapters to come and an argument in favor of foregrounding aesthetics and emotion in legal studies. Commentaries on the Laws...

..., Master of None, Atlanta, Dear White People, and Friends from College are primary case studies because they most closely mirror the white-cast shows with regard to aesthetics, affect, and tone. Their central characters navigate the same emotional...

... method that combines decolonial and feminist theory, art historical analysis, and extensive archival and field research, Karen Mary Davalos explores how narrow notions of identity, politics, and aesthetics have limited debates over Chicana/o art. This comprehensive art history employs vernacular concepts...

...This book argues that Ricanness is a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism, unfolding via aesthetic interventions in time. Uncovering what’s at stake politically for the often unwanted, colonized, racialized, and sexualized enduring body, Ricanness moves...