Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worsley, Shawan M.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Studies in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture > History > 20th century.
African-American arts > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity.
Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
Hip-hop > Social aspects > United States.
Rap (Music) > Social aspects > United States.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Race, racism and Black popular culture
  • Making the past accountable : The wind done gone and stereotypes of Black women
  • Audience reception through the lens of a $10 million dollar lawsuit
  • Unholy narratives and shameless acts : Kara Walker's side-long glance
  • Racist visual images? : museum comment books and viewer response
  • Troubling Blackness : The source magazine and the hip-hop nation
  • The narrative disrupted : reading letters, rewriting identity
  • Conclusion : reframing debates and analyses of controversial Black culture.

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