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Author:

Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967-

Title:

Appropriating Blackness : performance and the politics of authenticity / E. Patrick Johnson.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xiii, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Race identity.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in popular culture.
Authenticity (Philosophy)--Political aspects--United States.
Performing arts--Social aspects--United States.
Performing arts--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-359) and index.

Contents:

"Blackness" and authenticity : what's performance got to do with it? -- The pot is brewing : Marlon Riggs' Black is ... Black ain't -- Manifest faggotry : queering masculinity in African American culture -- Mother knows best : Blackness and transgressive domestic space -- "Nevah had uh cross word" : mammy and the trope of Black womanhood -- Sounds of Blackness down under : the Café of the Gate of Salvation -- Performance and/as pedagogy : performing Blackness in the classroom.

ISBN:

9780822331919 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822331918 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822331544 (alk. paper)
0822331543 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51900359

LCCN:

2003005956

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)