Kwanzaa

Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvKeith A. Mayes,USA) Mayes, Keith A. (University of Minnesota

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Since 1966, Kwanzaa has been celebrated as a black holiday tradition – an annual recognition of cultural pride in the African American community. But how did this holiday originate, and what is its broader cultural significance?Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition explores the political beginning and later expansion of Kwanzaa, from its start as a Black Power holiday, to its current place as one of the most mainstream of the black holiday traditions. For those wanting to learn more about this alternative observance practiced by countless African Americans and how Kwanzaa fits into the larger black holiday tradition, Keith A. Mayes gives an accessible and definitive account of the movements and individuals that pushed to make this annual celebration a reality, and shows how African-Americans brought the black freedom struggle to the American calendar.Clear and thoughtful, Kwanzaa is the perfect introduction to what is now the quintessential African American holiday.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-07-29
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt589 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415998543

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"Holidays are communiqués or bulletins about a people's sacred past," Mayes writes, "and what work ought to be done about a community's present condition and its future." Kwanzaa serves as a kind of case study in the meanings of culturally constructed holidays. Inspired in part by black American holidays that predated it, Kwanzaa has since inspired its own imitators seeking a place on the black cultural calendar. Mayes (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities) discusses Kwanzaa's "early beginnings, its internal promotion, and its external appropriation." Created in the mid-1960s as a holiday deriving from the cultural aesthetic associated with black power, Kwanzaa soon became incorporated into a broader commercialization of cultural holidays, to the disappointment and scolding of some of Kwanzaa's early proponents. The holiday thus emerged as part of a "black protest calendar," a case study in how "African-Americans used the calendar to perennialize their struggle and annually politicize themselves into existence," but eventually became an ethnic American holiday tagged with consumer icons. A thorough study, for advanced students and scholars. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- P. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Choice