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

• Autore: Johnson E. Patrick <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/073; 305.896073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Classificazione: LB 42610
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Appropriating Blackness
• ISBN: 0-8223-8510-4; 1-283-06474-X; 9786613064745
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172224803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.