1st Edition
Black Popular Culture and Social Justice Beyond the Culture
Introduction: Cultural Power
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey
Section I: Black Television, Movies, and Social Justice
1. Michaela Coel May Destroy You, But Also Help You Heal
Norrell Edwards
2. Two Percent: The Role of Popular Culture in Highlighting Social Justice Issues
Alexandria Johnson, Shae Earls and Jovel Warrican
3. Lovecraft Country and the (Re)construction of Black Womanhood
Shayna Maskell
4. The Hate U Give: Police Brutality, Political Fantasies, and Black Popular Culture
Tatiana Konrad
Section II: Black Music and Social Justice
5. Contributions of African American Anthems for Social Justice and Equity
John T. Mills and DeMond S. Miller
6. Cardi B: Raising Black Feminist Consciousness in Cyberspace
Maleke Glee
7. “Out for Presidents to Represent Me”: Hip-Hop, The Breakfast Club, and the 2020 Presidential Elections
Tabia Shawel
8. The Bigger Picture: Hip-Hop, Black Lives, and Social Justice
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Lestina Dongo, Kierra Lawrence and Noah Nelson
9. The Wu Tang Clan, Politics, and Black Power
Michael Blum
10. Rappin’ Black in a White World: The Watts Prophets and Democratic Futurity
Simon Stow
Section III: Black Speculative Fiction, Comics, Protest Art, and Social Justice
11. The Future is in Her Hands: Rewriting Black Girlhood Narratives and Experiences in Comics
Grace Gipson
12. Red, White, and Black: Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Dismantling of White American Heroism
Britney Henry
13. Outfoxing the Foxes: Revising Mammy as Subversive Social Justice in Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow
Valerie N. Matthews
14. Writings on the Walls: A Study of Black Protest Street Art in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd
Frederica Simmons
Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Culture
Jonathan I. Gayles
Biography
Dr. Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University, USA, and Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA). Her research includes Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics and For the Culture: Hip Hop and the Fight for Social Justice, with interests in popular culture, Black politics, and political psychology.
Dr. Jonathan I. Gayles is Professor and Chair of the department of Africana Studies at Georgia State University, USA. He is an interdisciplinary researcher whose primary areas of interest include the anthropology of education, Black masculinity, and critical media studies. He wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning documentary, White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books (2011, California Newsreel).
