Shawan M. Worsley

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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 alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes' persistence. This book furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780415846165
• ISBN-10: 0415846161
• Artikelnr.: 37088228

Autorenporträt

Shawan M. Worsley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Culture