{"title":"Front Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/728042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":496783,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American History","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treat It like a Seminar: Black Sonic Resistance to the Reagan Revolution","authors":"Jonathan W. Gray","doi":"10.1086/725827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725827","url":null,"abstract":"Ronald Reagan’s landslide 1984 reelection isolated urban centers in the United States as sites of domestic resistance to Reagan’s ascendant conservative hegemony. Black (and Latine and queer White) artists and activists located in major cities who rejected (and were rejected by) the “Reagan Revolution” contested their symbolic erasure from the polity by establishing conceptual spaces—sonic, literary, organizational, and otherwise—where they might defy the assertions of US right-wing conservatism. Musicians Tracy Chapman and Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour) of the hip-hop group Public Enemy exemplify the choice that some Black artists made to produce politicized art that sought to refute conservative rhetoric. Chapman and Chuck D mobilize a sonic counterpolitics of nostalgia that allowed them to connect the messages embedded in their music to sounds associated with important social movements from the recent past in order to resist the conservative politics that dominated the Black 1980s.","PeriodicalId":496783,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American History","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>Histories of Racial Capitalism</i>","authors":"Austin McCoy","doi":"10.1086/724075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724075","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsDestin Jenkins and Justin Leroy, eds. Histories of Racial Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. 266. $30.00 (paper).Austin McCoyAustin McCoyWest Virginia University (USA) Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 108, Number 2Spring 2023 A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/724075 For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":496783,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African American History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135423920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}