Houston A Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 111269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Houston A Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Houston A |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“You Cain’t Trus’ It”: Expert Witnessing in the Case of Rap
Balancing the Perspective, a Look at Early Black American Literary Artistry
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Intuiting Archive: Notes for a Post-Trauma Poetics
Always a term sonorous in its pr`onouncement and import, “archive” assumed even greater cache in its articulation by Derrida. Conservationist resonances of the notion were set in conversation with law, memory, and psychoanalysis. The yield was a feverish recognition that the putative verification and assurance yielded by the archives are, in sum, only “best practices” always determined by archons wielding hermeneutic authority. The feverish quest…
The Trouble with Post-Blackness
Architectures of Imagination
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance
Book Review| October 01 2012 The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. By Shane Vogel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xii + 257 pp. Photos, tables, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $22 (paper). Houston A. Baker, Jr. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2012) 32 (1): 1…
The point of entanglement: Modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love
Black Diaspora Studies constitute an indispensable analytical discourse for black expressivity. Ignoring such studies, mainstream, journalistic criticism of a novel such as Toni Morrison's Love stumbles into banal dead ends. Only through a scholarly return to the dispersed singularities that Edouard Glissant terms the ‘point of entanglement’ can critics render sufficient accounts of Morrison's corpus and its creative kin. The enduring legacy of t…
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the contours of contemporary social and political dynamics or abandoning race as an important issue in the study of American literature and culture. Most imp…
A modernidade e a ruptura transatlântica: Uma reflexão sobre o comércio de escravos
A aplicabilidade global da modernidade tem a sua marca mais relevante no Tráfico de Escravos Transatlântico, em que milhões de africanos foram deportados para o “Novo Mundo”. Analisar a economia do tráfico e as suas implicações diaspóricas resulta no reconhecimento da importância do açúcar como mercadoria e da plantação como meio de produção. Partindo de um prelúdio rememorativo centrado na cidade de Coimbra em Portugal, a análise inclui uma expl…
Anniversaries and “Whispering Ambitions”: American Literature at 75
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T
Blue Men, Black Writing, and Southern Revisions
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 101, Number 1, Winter 2002
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanaly…
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Journal Article Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xi + 110 pages. $16.95. Get access Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. Houston A. Baker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xi + 110 pages. $16.95 paper. Gina L. Taglieri Gina L. Taglieri Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 22, Issue 1, March…
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Struggle
Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. DuBois
Offers a reading of the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of 19th- and 20th-century America. As an historian, journalist, novelist, poet and social and literary critic, Du Bois profoundly influenced our understanding of the African-American experience
Black Studies: Rap and the Academy
Voodoo Dreams
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
From its beginnings in hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as hip hop theorist, takes comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient i…
Generational Shifts and the Recent Criticism of Afro-American Literature (1981)
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's med…
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
Journal Article Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 239 pages. $24.95. Get access Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing. Houston A. Baker, Jr.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 239 pages. $24.95. Opal Palmer Adisa Opal Palmer Adisa California College of Arts and Crafts Search for other works by this author …
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere
Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s
Turntables in the park displace the machine in the garden. Postindustrial, hyperurban, black American sound puts asunder that which machines have joined together ... and dances ... to hip-hop acoustics of Kool DJ Herc. Excuse me, sir, but we're about to do a thang... over in the park and, like how much would you charge us to plug into your electricity? A B-boy campsite is, thus, established. And Herc goes to work with two turntables and a trucklo…
Caliban's Triple Play
In Dubious Battle
Intuiting Archive: Notes for a Post-Trauma Poetics
Always a term sonorous in its pr`onouncement and import, “archive” assumed even greater cache in its articulation by Derrida. Conservationist resonances of the notion were set in conversation with law, memory, and psychoanalysis. The yield was a feverish recognition that the putative verification and assurance yielded by the archives are, in sum, only “best practices” always determined by archons wielding hermeneutic authority. The feverish quest…
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
From its beginnings in hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as hip hop theorist, takes comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient i…
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Journal Article Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Houston A. Baker, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xx + 122 pp. $19.95.) Get access Kenneth R. Janken Kenneth R. Janken Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078215 Published: 01 June 1991
"Handling "Crisis: Great Books, Rap Music, and the End of Western Homogeneity (Reflections on the Humanities in America)
The Environment as Enemy in a Black Autobiography: Manchild in the Promised Land
The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Poetry and Prose, 1912-1948
Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture
Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of this …
Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography
The Intricate Knot: Black Figures in American Literature, 1776-1863
Singers of Daybreak: Studies in Black American Literature
The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism
Professor Baker offers the richest analysis we have of black literature in its full cultural context. A superb literary critic, a sophisticated student of culture and society, Baker is himself a very talented writer, deeply engaged in the literary-cultural 'journey' he describes. result is a major work of interdisciplinary scholarship and humanistic criticism which will remain for years to come an authoritative treatment of the subject. The Journ…
The Journey Back: Issues in Black Literature and Criticism
English literature: Opening Up the Canon
Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
Relating the to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the blues voice and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature
Critical Change and Blues Continuity: An Essay on the Criticism of Larry Neal
The Literary Blues Tradition
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
Brer Baker's Post-Opec Blues
Blues, Ideology, and American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
Caliban's Triple Play
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Mr. Baker perceives the harlem as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'--Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
In Dubious Battle
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
The Promised Body: Reflections on Canon in an Afro-American Context
Marx wrote somewhere that literary scholars make their own canon. But, he said, they do not make it just as they please, but rather under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past.' This dictum seems unexceptionable, stressing as it does a particular kind of historical determinacy. Yet, what it does not clarify is the ideological orientation Marx was gesturing toward. The is always a selected phenomenon, arranged fo…
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