Audience Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture Studies in African American History and Culture 1st Edition by Shawan Worsley ISBN 978-0415804868 0415804868

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ISBN 10:   0415804868

ISBN 13: 978-0415804868

Author: Shawan M. Worsley

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 ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes’ persistence. This book 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.

Table of contents: 

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

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