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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817701603321

Autore

Worsley Shawan M

Titolo

Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / by Shawan M. Worsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-23564-3

1-282-28347-2

9786612283475

0-203-86657-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Studies in African American history and culture

Disciplina

305.896/07300904

305.896073

Soggetti

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

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Race, Racism and Black Popular Culture; 2 Making the Past Accountable: The Wind Done Gone and Stereotypes of Black Women; 3 Audience Reception through the Lens of a 10 Million Dollar Lawsuit; 4 Unholy Narratives and Shameless Acts: Kara Walker's Side-Long Glance; 5 Racist Visual Images?: Museum Comment Books and Viewer Response; 6 Troubling Blackness: The Source Magazine and the Hip-Hop Nation; 7 The Narrative Disrupted: Reading Letters, Rewriting Identity

8 Conclusion: Reframing Debates and Analyses of Controversial Black



CultureNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alter