"Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address / Michael Eric Dyson. Head matter : the mind and the mask. An empire state of mind / Imani Perry ; Consolidating a hip hop nation : revisiting the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, twenty years later / Tanji Gilliam ; Head on straight, mask on crooked : MF doom and the trope of the mask / Nicholas James ; The superhero aesthetics in hip hop culture / Will Boone -- Visual matter. I have a meme : photography, interactive memory, and digital commemorations of the march on Washington / Paul M. Farber ; How deep? skin deep? : a case study on shameful national orientations / Emily Churilla ; Faggoty/white/uniform : gays in the military and a few good men / Scott St. Pierre -- Global . Selected poems / Suheir Hammad ; The communal womb in Haile Gerima's sankofa / Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson ; South Asian hip hop wannabes and the chavs who love them : the blackening of British culture in Gautam Malkani's londonstani / Delores B. Phillips -- "A true and faithful account of Mr. Ota Benga The Pygmy, written by M. Berman, zookeeper, a short story / Adam Mansbach -- Culture of personality. Richard Pryor's pain : from stand-up comedy to Hollywood film / Sean Springer ; You are now tuned into the ... greatest : Jay-Z and the spectacle of the cool / Wilfredo Gomez ; Disassembling the "matrix of domination" : Janelle Monae's transformative vision / Carrie Walker ; "Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address / Michael Eric Dyson.
Summary:
"In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically engage a wide range of issues, including American imperialism, racial and gender discrimination, the globalization of culture, and the limitations of our new multimedia world. This diverse assortment of works by scholars, activists, and artists models the complex ways that we must engage university students, faculty, staff, and administration in a moment where so many of us are confounded by the "in medias res" nature of our interface with the world in the current moment. Featuring contributions from Imani Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Suheir Hammad, John Jennings, and Adam Mansbach, In Media Res is a primer for academic inquiry into popular culture; American studies; critical media literacy; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Africana studies"--Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.