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Autore: | Banks Patricia Ann. |
Titolo: | Represent : art and identity among the black upper-middle class / / Patricia A. Banks |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (134 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.896 |
305.896/073 | |
305.896073 | |
Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Race identity |
African American art - Social aspects | |
Art and race | |
Art and the middle class | |
Ethnicity in art | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Constructing Black Identities; 2 Seeing Ourselves: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Appearance; 3 Narratives of the Past: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and History; 4 Measures of Worth: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Dignity; 5 Advancing the Race: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Community; 6 New Perspectives on Race, Cultural Participation, and the Black Middle-Class; Appendix: Research Sites and Research Procedures; Notes; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. She not only challenges common assumptions about elite cultural participation, but also contributes to the heated debate about the signific |
Titolo autorizzato: | Represent |
ISBN: | 1-135-17795-3 |
1-135-17796-1 | |
1-282-97465-3 | |
9786612974656 | |
0-203-86286-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459374503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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