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"This project links the engagement of Black nationalist activism to artistic experimentation in recent African American literature, visual art, and film. GerShun Avilez argues that the ideology of modern Black nationalism functions as a dominant means for artistic and theoretical experimentation in African-American literary and visual artwork in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The project provides a new genealogy of contemporary African American artistic production while also shedding new light on the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and placing emphasis on how questions of gender and sexuality guide the artistic experimentation discussed throughout the work. More specifically, Avilez unravels how the artistic production of the Black Arts era provides a set of critical methodologies and paradigms rooted in the disidentification with Black nationalist discourses, which gives rise to a subjectivity Avilez refers to as aesthetic radicalism. This term describes the engaged critique of nationalist rhetoric that appears prominently during the 1960s and that continues to offer novel means for expressing Black intimacy and embodiment and producing experimental works of art and innovate artistic methods.--Provided by publisher.

African Americans --- Black nationalism --- American literature --- Black Arts movement --- African American arts --- Noirs américains --- Nationalisme noir --- Littérature américaine --- Arts noirs américains --- Intellectual life --- History --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Critique et interprétation. --- Black Arts movement. --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- 20th century. --- History and criticism. --- Noirs américains --- Littérature américaine --- Arts noirs américains --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Critique et interprétation.

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Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomical injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists' work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyses the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces - specifically prisons and hospitals - and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them.

Sociology of minorities --- African American gays. --- Gays, Black. --- African American arts. --- Gay artists. --- Homophobia. --- Racism. --- Queer theory. --- Queer --- Art --- Body --- Racism --- Blackness --- Book --- African American gay people. --- Gay people, Black.