cover image Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

Mark Anthony Neal. Routledge, $32.95 (221pp) ISBN 978-0-415-92658-4

From Sanford and Son to Snoop Doggy Dog, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic looks at the last three decades of black images and representations. State University of New York, Albany, professor of English and Africana Studies Mark Anthony Neal focuses on the way that music, film and television were altered on the one hand by integration and on the other hand by the pessimism and social unrest among black Americans in the '70s and '80s. Neal also discusses the work of young black intellectuals of the ""post-soul"" generation, the first to be part of an integrated yet increasingly isolated academy. ( Feb.)