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THE AESTHETIC CHARACTER OF BLACKNESS: SOUNDS LIKE US by Jemma DeCristo

THE AESTHETIC CHARACTER OF BLACKNESS: SOUNDS LIKE US by Jemma DeCristo

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152 x 230mm, 288 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025 In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the aesthetic thought of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno, DeCristo critiques the exaltation of black culture and art’s saving power by analyzing the violence underneath aesthetic production. She tracks black music’s representational

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