James Baldwin and the 1980s : witnessing the Reagan era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vogel, Joseph, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation. Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. Nineteen eighties.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The price of the beat : Black popular music and the crossover dream
Freaks in the Reagan era : androgyny and the American ideal of manhood
The welcome table : intimacy, AIDS, and love
"To crush the serpent" : the religious right and the moral minority
Things not seen : covering tragedy, from the terror in Atlanta to Black Lives Matter
Epilogue.