1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958193303321

Autore

Worsley Shawan M

Titolo

Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture / / 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956393403321

Autore

Stevens Robert <1956->

Titolo

The English judges : their role in the changing constitution / Robert Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2002

ISBN

9786610801435

9781472559272

1472559274

9781280801433

1280801433

9781847312600

1847312608

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

342.4202/9

Soggetti

Judges - England

Political questions and judicial power - England

Constitutional history - England

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 (pages [155]-162) and index

Nota di contenuto

1 Setting the Tone: The Act of Settlement and the Emergence of the Balance of Powers -- 2 1900-1960: The Declining Role of the English



Judiciary -- 3 The Gradual U-Turn -- 4 The Years of Conservative Government (1979-1997) -- 5 Jurisprudence or Politics -- 6 Balance of Powers: The Independence of Individual Judges -- 7 The Balance of Powers: The Judges as a Separate Branch of Government? -- 8 New Labour in Power -- 9 The Second Coming -- 10 The Future

Sommario/riassunto

In this new book Robert Stevens looks at the English Judiciary from an historical perspective with especial reference to its changing role in the 20th Century. He examines current debates about the position of the judges in the light of the possible future role of the judiciary in the Constitution. The centrepiece of the book is a detailed study of the political influences on the judiciary and the influence the judiciary has had on politics in the 20th Century. It concludes with a series of proposed reforms to ensure that the English judiciary will both maintain its strength but enhance its utility in the 21st Century. It offers no simple-minded argument for separation of powers but analyses what is needed to clarify the balance of powers and to advance the debate about the role of an unelected judiciary in an increasingly democratic society