1st Edition
Representing Black Culture Race and Cultural Politics in the United States
By Richard M. Merelman
Copyright 1995
344 Pages
by
Routledge
Representing Black Culture provides an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the role that black culture plays in American race realtions. By analyzing films, literature, popular music, education, television, and governmental cultural policy, Richard M. Merelman looks carefuly at how African-Americans as well as whites have represented and projected balck culture into the mainstream. He... Read more
1 The Rise of Black Cultural Projection Part One Skirmishes along the Cultural Front 2 Teaching Black History: A Study in Syncretism 3 The Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday: Ritualizing Black Cultural Projection 4 Is Spike Lee “Doing the Right Thing?”:Film as Black Cultural Projection 5 The Politics of Black Cultural Projection I: Multicultural Education from the Top Down 6 The Politics of Black Cultural Projection II: Multicultural Education from the Bottom Up Part Two A Major Battle 7 At the Gates of the Citadel: The News about Black Culture 8 Within the Citadel: National Educational Standards and Black Cultural Projection 9 Hearts and Minds: Whites and Black Cultural Projection 10 For a New American Culture, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Richard M. Merelman
