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Black iconoclasm = public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Black iconoclasm/ by Charles Athanasopoulos.
Reminder of title:	public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America /
Author:	Athanasopoulos, Charles.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
Description:	xiv, 235 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	African Americans. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66924-8
ISBN:	9783031669248

Black iconoclasm = public symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America /
Athanasopoulos, Charles.

Black iconoclasmpublic symbols, racial progress, and post/Ferguson America /[electronic resource] :by Charles Athanasopoulos. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xiv, 235 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Prologue: Twilight of the Icons -- Part 1: Black Icarus 1 -- 2. In the Embers of Black Critique: Dismantling the Icon of Black Lives Matter -- 3. Désordre Absolu: Proposing Black Iconoclasm -- Part 2: Black Icarus 2 -- 4. On Fanonian Slips -- 5. Iconoclastic Readings: Anti/Blackness in Post/Ferguson American Cinema -- 6. Poetics of Visual Relation: Le Chaos-Monde of Black Lives Matter Street Art -- Part 3: Black Icarus 3 -- 7. Epilogue: Twilight of the Icons.

In the decade since the 2014 Ferguson Uprising, re-intensified conversations about racial progress continue to be at the forefront of American culture. The moniker Black Lives Matter, for example, emerged as a rallying cry of Black-led mass rebellions calling into question the rigid Western social codes of race, gender, class, and sexuality. These values emerge through iconography: those social codes reflected by a corresponding rolodex of public symbols (whether positive or negative) in American culture. Black Lives Matter fractured icons such as the first Black president, the innocent police officer, and the charismatic Black male activist opening space for new theories and practices of Black radical disruption. At the same time, groups such as #BLM10, BLM Grassroots, and Mass Action for Black Liberation criticize the Black Lives Matter Global Network as having transformed into a new icon of racial progress, demonstrating that the meaning of Black liberation remains hotly contested. How do we discern Black radical thought and activism from the co-options of Western Man? Are we doomed to repeat a cycle of destroying a few icons only to inevitably produce new ones? In Black Iconoclasm, Charles Athanasopoulos dismantles the Eurocentric notion of iconoclasm as the physical destruction of icons and/or the recovery of supposedly pure counter-ideologies. Instead, Black iconoclasm refers to a liminal orientation toward cracks and fissures in narratives of linear racial progress and teleological narratives of Black liberation. Athanasopoulos examines conflicting messages surrounding Black liberation in post/Ferguson America across activism, Black radical theory, communicative situations, cinema, and street art. Across each arena of American culture, his orientation toward the liminal unsettles the supposed cyclical nature of icons/iconoclasm by demonstrating that theories and practices of Black radical disruption always reflect both Black radical excess and the iconographic residues of Western Man. Those residues do not preclude those theories/practices from teaching us important lessons, they are how those lessons are learned to evolve our theories and practices of Black radical disruption. Institutional capture is neither simply inevitable just as no movement, person, or idea will be totally immune to Western Man's racial icons. Thus, Black iconoclasm eschews purity politics and the pursuit of epistemological closure in favor of a critical orientation toward ritual transgression and Black radical discernment. Reframing iconoclasm in this way, Athanasopoulos opens avenues for new approaches to the relationship between Black resistance and the co-option of that resistance. Charles Athanasopoulos is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies & English at The Ohio State University (USA) He received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Communication from the University of Pittsburgh, and his research interests lie at the intersection of Black rhetorics, media, and culture. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles in venues such as Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association and the Western Journal of Communication.

ISBN: 9783031669248

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-66924-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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African Americans.

LC Class. No.: E185.615

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