Small acts

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Small Acts charts the emergence of a distinctive cultural sensibility that accomplishes the difficult task of being simultaneously both black and English. Straddling the field of popular cultural forms, Paul Gilroy shows how the African diaspora born from slavery has given rise to a web of intimate social relationships in which African-American, Caribbean and now black English elements combine. Discussions of Spike Lee and Frank Bruno, record sleeves, photographs, film and literature from Beloved to Yardie are used to show how new and exciting possibilities have arisen from the transnational flows that create cultural links between the global African diaspora. Small Acts is a seminal work by an important young critic that changes the terms on which black culture will be understood and argued about.

subjects: African American authors,  African Americans,  African Americans in literature,  American literature,  Black Arts,  Blacks,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Politics and government,  Social conditions,  Race relations,  Racism,  Blacks, social conditions,  British art,  African americans - general & miscellaneous,  African american literature - literary criticism,  African diaspora - general & miscellaneous,  African americans - education,  Black people

Places: Great Britain