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Power Relations in Black Lives Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias Christa Buschendorf
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 17.
- American Culture Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relational Sociology.
- Pierre Bourdieu.
- Norbert Elias.
- Sociology of Literature.
- Cultural Sociology.
- Power Relations.
- Racism.
- African American Literature.
- Black Culture.
- Rap Music.
- Political Activism.
- Habitus.
- Field.
- Capital.
- Symbolic Violence.
- Established-Outsider Relationships.
- Power Asymmetries.
- Power Imbalances.
- America.
- Social Relations.
- American Studies.
- Sociological Theory.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Relational Sociology.
- Pierre Bourdieu.
- Norbert Elias.
- Sociology of Literature.
- Cultural Sociology.
- Power Relations.
- Racism.
- African American Literature.
- Black Culture.
- Rap Music.
- Political Activism.
- Habitus.
- Field.
- Capital.
- Symbolic Violence.
- Established-Outsider Relationships.
- Power Asymmetries.
- Power Imbalances.
- America.
- Social Relations.
- American Studies.
- Sociological Theory.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Buschendorf (ed.), Power Relations in Black Lives Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2017
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Christa Buschendorf (PhD, Professor em.) taught American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany).
- Summary:
- According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, #BlackLivesMatter in Ferguson).
- Besprochen in:Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit, Rundbrief, 1 (2018)
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Satin-Legs Smith and a Mississippi Mother 35 Intellectual Disposition and Bodily Emotion 55 "You have to leave home to find home" 77 (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? 101 "You People Almost Had Me Hating You Because of the Color of Your Skin" 123 Black Women's Business 145 "What's the Position You Hold?" 165 "Decolorized for Popular Appeal" 183 Understanding Ferguson 205 Transformations of Oppression 237 Introducing Disagreement 257 Contributors 281
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783839436608
- 3839436605
- OCLC:
- 1013956909
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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