Kobena Mercer

Welcome to the Jungle

New Positions in Black Cultural Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to the Jungle examines black cultural forms such as hairstyles, dress, and music, and new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography, black artists, and situates this prolific creativity within a framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415906357
• ISBN-10: 0415906350
• Artikelnr.: 21008076

Autorenporträt

Kobena Mercer is Assistant Professor in the Art History and History of Consciousness programs at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Monster Metaphors
2: Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination
3: Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation
4: Black Hair/Style Politics
5: Black Masculinity and the Sexual Politics of Race
6: Reading Racial Fetishism
7: Dark & Lovely
8: Black Art and the Burden of Representation
9: Welcome to the Jungle
10: ¿1968¿