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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture book cover

1st Edition

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

By Shawan M. Worsley Copyright 2010
158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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

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