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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815150503321

Titolo

Race and hegemonic struggle in the United States : pop culture, politics, and protest / / edited by Michael G. Lacy and Mary E. Triece

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-61147-759-X

1-61147-710-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LaceyMichael G. <1961->

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Hegemony - Social aspects - United States

African Americans - Politics and government

Popular culture - United States

Politics and culture - United States

Communication - Political aspects - United States

Protest movements - United States

Government, Resistance to - United States

United States Race relations

United States Race relations Political aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Hegemony and Disruption in Film, Television, and Documentary; 1 Racial Shadows, Threat, Neoliberalism, and Trauma; 2 Bizarre Foods; 3 Remembering Radical Black Dissent; II: Change vs. the "Dead Weight" of Tradition in Politics; 4 The Mother Tongue as "Back Talk"; 5 At the Margins of the American Political Imagination; 6 The Birthers; III: "Pessimism of the Intelligence" and "Optimism of the Will"; 7 Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants; 8 Racing/Sexing the Rhetorical Situation; 9 The Black Public Intellectual of the Joshua Generation; Index

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Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest </span><span>is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>