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Appropriating Blackness : performance and the politics of authenticity / E. Patrick Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Authenticity (Philosophy)--Political aspects--United States.
- Authenticity (Philosophy).
- Performing arts--Social aspects--United States.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Political aspects--United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and critiques of authenticity.
- 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 Cafe of the Gate of Salvation
- Performance and/as pedagogy : performing Blackness in the classroom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-359) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064745
- 9780822385103
- 0822385104
- 9781283064743
- 128306474X
- OCLC:
- 213455232
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