Description |
x, 404 p. ; 24 cm. |
Subject |
African Americans -- Race identity.
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Black people -- Race identity.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Black people -- Intellectual life.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture.
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African American arts.
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Arts, Black.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects.
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Contents |
Introduction : traveling while Black / Kennell Jackson -- When is African theater "Black"? / Catherine M. Cole -- Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia / E. Patrick Johnson -- Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna -- The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? / Kennell Jackson -- Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture / Kobena Mercer -- Keepin' it real : disidentification and its discontents / Tim'm T. West -- Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity / Caroline A. Streeter -- Interlude : Black artists on issues of culture and performance -- Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective / Tyler Stovall -- The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown / Manthia Diawara -- Global hip-hop and the African diaspora / Halifu Osumare -- Continental riffs : praisesingers in transnational contexts / Paulla A. Ebron -- Where have all the Black shows gone? / Herman Gray -- Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana / Nicole R. Fleetwood -- Spike Lee's Bamboozled / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in Set it off / Jennifer Devere Brody -- Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness / Harry J. Elam, Jr. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Add Author |
Elam, Harry Justin.
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Jackson, Kennell A.
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LC # |
E185.625 .B555 2005 |
Dewey # |
305.896/073/09051 |
ISBN |
0472098403 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780472098408 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0472068407 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780472068401 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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