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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172224803321

Autore

Johnson E. Patrick <1967->

Titolo

Appropriating Blackness : performance and the politics of authenticity / / E. Patrick Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8223-8510-4

1-283-06474-X

9786613064745

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Classificazione

LB 42610

Disciplina

305.896/073

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity

African Americans - Intellectual life

African Americans in popular culture

Authenticity (Philosophy) - Political aspects - United States

Performing arts - Social aspects - United States

Performing arts - Political aspects - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Blackness" and authenticity : what's performance got to do with it? -- The pot is brewing : Marlon Riggs' Black is ... Black ain't -- Manifest faggotry : queering masculinity in African American culture -- Mother knows best : Blackness and transgressive domestic space -- "Nevah had uh cross word" : mammy and the trope of Black womanhood -- Sounds of Blackness down under : the Cafe of the Gate of  Salvation -- Performance and/as pedagogy : performing Blackness in the classroom.

Sommario/riassunto

A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and critiques of authenticity.