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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Metcalf, Josephine, 1975- editor.

Spaulding, Carina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, Rodney, 1965-2012.

King, Rodney.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

African Americans--Crimes against.

Police brutality.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States.

Police brutality--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

African Americans--Crimes against--California--Los Angeles.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction / Josephine Metcalf & Carina Spaulding : "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire"

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 beyoncé to brandy : celebrity and the black hair care 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

"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

In closing: ongoing realities and the meaning of "blackness"

"Being afraid of "post-blackness"" : what's neoliberalism got to do with it? / Marlon Lieber

Black 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472455390

1472455398

OCLC:

907203922