Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / by Shawan M. Worsley
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| Autore: |
Worsley Shawan M
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| Titolo: |
Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / by Shawan M. Worsley
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (159 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/07300904 |
| 305.896073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture |
| ISBN: | 1-135-23564-3 |
| 1-282-28347-2 | |
| 9786612283475 | |
| 0-203-86657-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777909403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in African American history and culture.