Authentic Blackness ¿ «Real» Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of «keeping it real,» as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of «authentic blackness,» while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and «real» blackness; the link between «blackness» and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle¿s comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.

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Contents: Martin Japtok/Rafiki Jenkins: What Does It Mean to Be «Really» Black? A Selective History of Authentic Blackness - Dara N. Byrne/Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The «Defining» Problem of Black Authenticity in Canada: Real Slang and the Grammar of Cultural Hybridity - David M. Jones: Privileging the Popular at What Price? A Discussion of Joan Morgan, Hip Hop, Feminism, and Radical Politics - Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.: Claiming Hip Hop: Authenticity Debates, Filipino DJs, and Contemporary U.S. Racial Formations - Wendy Alexia Rountree: «Faking the Funk»: A Journey Towards Authentic Blackness - Gregory Stephens: Brown Boy Blues...inna Jamaica - Joy Viveros: Black AuthenticityRacial Drag and the Case of Dave Chappelle - Jonathan Shandell: How Black Do You Want It? Countee Cullen and the Contest for Racial Authenticity on Page and Stage - Monika Gehlawat: Peculiar Irresolution: James Baldwin and Flânerie - Benjamin D. Carson: «Many forces at work»: Clarence Major's Early Fiction and the Critique of Racial Economy - Ian Reilly: «Isn't the whole point of writing to escape what people not me think of me»: The Failure of Language and the Search for Authenticity inPhiladelphiaFireandGod's Gym.