Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture - Paperbackby Aliyyah I. Abdur Rahman (Author) In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and artists have employed realist modes of expression to represent racial harm and to imaginatively remediate it, the black avant garde