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Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture / Shawan M. Worsley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in African American history and culturePublication details: New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203866573
  • 0203866576
  • 0415804868
  • 9780415804868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture.DDC classification:
  • 305.896/07300904 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.625 .W624 2009eb
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Contents:
Race, racism and Black popular culture -- Making the past accountable : The wind done gone and stereotypes of Black women -- Audience reception through the lens of a $10 million dollar lawsuit -- Unholy narratives and shameless acts : Kara Walker's side-long glance -- Racist visual images? : museum comment books and viewer response -- Troubling Blackness : The source magazine and the hip-hop nation -- The narrative disrupted : reading letters, rewriting identity -- Conclusion : reframing debates and analyses of controversial Black culture.
Summary: Worsley analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race, racism and Black popular culture -- Making the past accountable : The wind done gone and stereotypes of Black women -- Audience reception through the lens of a $10 million dollar lawsuit -- Unholy narratives and shameless acts : Kara Walker's side-long glance -- Racist visual images? : museum comment books and viewer response -- Troubling Blackness : The source magazine and the hip-hop nation -- The narrative disrupted : reading letters, rewriting identity -- Conclusion : reframing debates and analyses of controversial Black culture.

Worsley analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination 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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