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02852aam a2200421 i 4500 001 3525AD14B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180905010705 008 171215t20182018ncu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017059815 020 $a 1478000414 020 $a 9781478000419 020 $a 1478000546 020 $a 9781478000549 035 $a (OCoLC)1007567612 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d CBY $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a P94.5 A372 U554 2018 100 1 $a Gates, Racquel J., $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Double negative : $b the Black image and popular culture / $c Racquel J. Gates. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xii, 236 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Eddie Murphy, Coming to America, and formal negativity -- Relational negativity : the sellout films of the 1990s -- The circumstantial negativity of Halle Berry -- Embracing the ratchet reality television and strategic negativity. 520 8 $a From the antics of Flavor Flav on 'Flavor of love' to the brazen behavior of the women on 'Love & hip hop', so-called 'negative' images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showing how some of the most disreputable representations of black people in popular media can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot. Rather than falling back on claims that negative portrayals hinder black progress, Gates demonstrates how reality shows such as Basketball Wives, comedians like Katt Williams, and movies like 'Coming to America' play on negative images to take up questions of assimilation and upward mobility, provide a respite from the demands of respectability, and explore subversive ideas. By using negativity as a framework to illustrate these texts' social and political work as they reverberate across black culture, Gates opens up new lines of inquiry for black cultural studies. 650 0 $a African Americans in mass media. 650 0 $a African Americans in popular culture. 650 0 $a African Americans and mass media. 650 0 $a Race in mass media. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gates, Racquel J., 1980- $t Double negative. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 $z 9781478002239 $w (DLC) 2017061591 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804012115.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093132.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190726011907.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212015432.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3525AD14B0D511E8923D894D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search