Black is Beautiful

Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject.* The first extended philosophical treatment of an important subject that has been almost entirely neglected by philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of art* Takes an important step in assembling black aesthetics as an object of philosophical study* Unites two areas of scholarship for the first time - philosophical aesthetics and black cultural theory, dissolving the dilemma of either studying philosophy, or studying black expressive culture* Brings a wide range of fields into conversation with one another- from visual culture studies and art history to analytic philosophy to musicology - producing mutually illuminating approaches that challenge some of the basic suppositions of each* Well-balanced, up-to-date, and beautifully written as well as inventive and insightful* Winner of The American Society of Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize 2017