Blackademic crowdsourcing! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📚" title="Books" aria-label="Emoji: Books"> If you were to teach or take a class on #Blackaestheticstudies, as in a study of Blackness as an **aesthetic** principle (rather than an exclusively social one, tho they are obvi connected), what texts would you (want to) engage?

Here are some I’m considering (& an indication of the vibe I’m grooving on):
Stephen Best, None Like Us
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like-us 
https://www.dukeupress.edu/none-like... href="http://www.twtext.com.cdn.cloudflare.net//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics

Cheryl Finley, Committed to Memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory
https://press.princeton.edu/books/har... href="http://www.twtext.com.cdn.cloudflare.net//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics

Committed to Memory

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136844/committed-to-memory

Kevin Quashie, The Sovereignty if Quiet
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553115/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sover... href="http://www.twtext.com.cdn.cloudflare.net//hashtag/Blackaesthetics"> #Blackaesthetics #Blackaestheticstudies

Book Details - Rutgers University Press

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553115/

Nicole Fleetwood, On Racial Icons
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156
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Book Details - Rutgers University Press

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/on-racial-icons/9780813565156

Michael Boyce Gillespie, Film Blackness
https://www.dukeupress.edu/film-blackness 
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