In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular culture, including race, technology, gender, media, and politics. Its scope and coverage of a wide range of popular issues make this book a powerful introduction to popular culture studies in the contemporary moment.
In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular culture, including race, technology, gender, media, and politics. Its scope and coverage of a wide range of popular issues make this book a powerful introduction to popular culture studies in the contemporary moment.
James Braxton Peterson is associate professor of English and director of Africana studies at Lehigh University.
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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Into the Midst of Things James Braxton Peterson Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind Imani Perry Chapter 2: Consolidating a Hip Hop Nation: Revisiting the Videotaped Police Beating of Rodney King, 20 Years Later Tanji Gilliam Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked: MF DOOM and the Trope of the Mask Nicholas James Chapter 4: The Superhero Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture Will Boone Part II: Visual Matter Chapter 5: I Have a Meme: Photography, Memory, and Digital Commemorations of the March on Washington Paul M. Farber Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep? A Case Study on Shameful National Orientations Emily Churilla Chapter 7: Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men Scott St. Pierre Part III: Global Flows Chapter 8: Selected Poems Suheir Hammad Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima's Sankofa Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who Love Them: The Blackening of British Culture in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani Delores B. Phillips Chapter 11: "A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy," written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, a short story Adam Mansbach Part IV: Culture of Personality Chapter 12: Richard Pryor's Pain: From Stand-Up Comedy to Hollywood Film Sean Springer Chapter 13: You Are Now Tuned Into the ... Greatest: Jay-Z and the Spectacle of the Cool Wilfredo Gomez Chapter 14: Disassembling the "Matrix of Domination": Janelle Monae's Transformative Vision Carrie Walker Chapter 15: "Dreams of the Drum": A Keynote Address Michael Eric Dyson Bibliography Sound Recordings About the Contributors Index
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Into the Midst of Things James Braxton Peterson Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind Imani Perry Chapter 2: Consolidating a Hip Hop Nation: Revisiting the Videotaped Police Beating of Rodney King, 20 Years Later Tanji Gilliam Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked: MF DOOM and the Trope of the Mask Nicholas James Chapter 4: The Superhero Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture Will Boone Part II: Visual Matter Chapter 5: I Have a Meme: Photography, Memory, and Digital Commemorations of the March on Washington Paul M. Farber Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep? A Case Study on Shameful National Orientations Emily Churilla Chapter 7: Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men Scott St. Pierre Part III: Global Flows Chapter 8: Selected Poems Suheir Hammad Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima's Sankofa Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who Love Them: The Blackening of British Culture in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani Delores B. Phillips Chapter 11: "A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy," written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, a short story Adam Mansbach Part IV: Culture of Personality Chapter 12: Richard Pryor's Pain: From Stand-Up Comedy to Hollywood Film Sean Springer Chapter 13: You Are Now Tuned Into the ... Greatest: Jay-Z and the Spectacle of the Cool Wilfredo Gomez Chapter 14: Disassembling the "Matrix of Domination": Janelle Monae's Transformative Vision Carrie Walker Chapter 15: "Dreams of the Drum": A Keynote Address Michael Eric Dyson Bibliography Sound Recordings About the Contributors Index
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