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Title:

African American culture and society after Rodney King : provocations and protests, progression and "post-racialism" / edited by Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Police brutality--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
African Americans--Crimes against--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
King, Rodney,--1965-2012.

Other Authors:

Metcalf, Josephine, 1975- editor.
Spaulding, Carina, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire" / Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding -- The African American criminal in culture and media -- Ill parallels : Ice-T, Iceberg Slim, and Portrait of a pimp / Will Turner -- From deflection to deconstruction: the transformation of Ishmael Reed's satire in Juice! / Jiri Salamoun -- Slave voices and bodies in poetry and plays -- Of diggin' and fakin' : historiopoiesis in Suzan-Lori Parks and contemporary African American culture / Ilka Saal -- Poetry in the archive : reimagining Amistad in Kevin Young's Ardency / Carl Plasa -- Representing African American gender and sexuality in pop-culture and society -- (Dis)robing Django unchained : the black damsel in distress as a progressive image / Celeste Doaks -- From Brandy to Beyonc©♭: celebrity and the black haircare industry since 1992 -- The rebirth of queer : exile, kinship, and metamorphosis in Dee Rees' Pariah / Aneeka A. Henderson -- Black cultural production in music and dance -- Popularizing African American history and culture through dance : the ethics and politics of the artistic visions of Alvin Ailey and Judith Jamison / Carmen Dexl -- Breakbeat syncretism : the drum sample in African American popular music / Rowan Oliver -- Twenty-first century blues : Treme, jazz, and the remaking of New Orleans -- Obama and the politics of race / Brian Jones -- The Wright liability : Barack Obama's response to racial controversy -- M♯d♯lina St♯lniceanu -- "Not one of us, Barack Obama, the "paranoid style" and the polarization of American politics / Kevern Verney -- A double edged sword : Ebony Magazine and the 2008 Obama campaign / James West -- Ongoing realities and the meaning of "Blackness" -- "Being afraid of "post-Blackness"" : what's neoliberalism got to do with it? / Marlon Lieber -- Art in the age of "new Jim Crow" : delimiting the scope of racial justice and Black film production since Rodney King / Jonathan Munby -- Afterword / John Oldfield -- Index

ISBN:

1472455398 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781472455390 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907203922

LCCN:

2014046614

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)