E Patrick Johnson

Appropriating Blackness

Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

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Produktbeschreibung

A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and critiques of authenticity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331544
• ISBN-10: 0822331543
• Artikelnr.: 21457765

Autorenporträt

E. Patrick Johnson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
"Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It? 1
1. The Pot is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is . . . Black Ain't 17
2. Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture 48
3. Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space 76
4. "Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood 104
5. Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation 160
6. Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom 219
Appendix A Mary Rhyne's Narrative 257
Appendix B Interview with Mrs. Smith 311
Notes 315
Bibliography 345
Index 361