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Author Hall, James C., 1960-

Title Mercy, mercy me : African-American culture and the American sixties / James C. Hall.

Publication Info. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Race and American culture
Race and American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents African-American antimodernism and the American sixties -- Mourning song: Robert Hayden and the politics of memory -- Modern doubt to antimodern commitment: Paule Marshall and William Demby -- Meditations: John Coltrane and freedom -- Prevalence of ritual in an age of change: Romare Bearden -- W.E.B. Du Bois and dedication to the dead -- What's going on : "the most truly modern of all people."
Summary Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the Sixties can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the most incisive critics and celebrants of the Enlightenment inheritance. Focusing on the work of six individuals-Robert Hayden, William Demby, Paule Marshall, John Coltrane, Romare Bearden, and W.E.B. DuBois-Mercy, Mercy Me seeks to recover an American tradition of evaluating the "dialectic of the Enlightenment."
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Subject African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African American arts -- 20th century.
African American arts.
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Modernism (Art) -- United States.
Modernism (Art)
United States.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Modernism (Literature)
United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
History.
Chronological Term 1961-1969
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1945-1970
Subject United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hall, James C., 1960- Mercy, mercy me. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 (DLC) 00055774
ISBN 9780195096095 (acid-free paper)
0195096096 (acid-free paper)
9780198025627 (electronic book)
0198025629 (electronic book)
1280451157
9781280451157
0195096096 (acid-free paper)