Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 10779683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aneeka Ayanna Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aneeka Ayanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON A A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Veil and Vow
In Veil and Vow , Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man . Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late tw…
Red, Black, and Left
Red, Black, and Left:Communist Counterdiscourses Aneeka A. Henderson (bio) Mary Helen Washington’s The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014 Erik S. McDuffie’s Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011 There is no better time to read Mary Helen Washington’s The Other Black…
Black Political and Popular Culture
Richard Iton's In Search of the Black Fantastic: Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2008) is one of the most important texts to examine post–Civil Rights black political and popular culture. This article uses Iton's paradigm for examining the enduring relationship between black political and popular culture and extends it in order to analyze the continuities through the political economy and cultural production of marriage in the Unite…
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Black Political and Popular Culture
Richard Iton's In Search of the Black Fantastic: Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2008) is one of the most important texts to examine post–Civil Rights black political and popular culture. This article uses Iton's paradigm for examining the enduring relationship between black political and popular culture and extends it in order to analyze the continuities through the political economy and cultural production of marriage in the Unite…
Red, Black, and Left
Red, Black, and Left:Communist Counterdiscourses Aneeka A. Henderson (bio) Mary Helen Washington’s The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014 Erik S. McDuffie’s Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011 There is no better time to read Mary Helen Washington’s The Other Black…
Veil and Vow
In Veil and Vow , Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man . Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late tw…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (2 works) · Art (2 works)