Dark Designs and Visual Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Michele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts.

African American women.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

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

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 p.)

Other Title:

Dark designs & visual culture

Place of Publication:

North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2004.

Summary:

A collection of writings from the '90s by the popular Black feminist scholar and journalist on film, art, and politics.

Contents:

C O N T E N T S; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: 1989 THROUGH 2001; 1 Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity; 2 Places I've Lived; 3 Engaging and Escaping in 1994; 4 To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the '60s and '70s; 5 Censorship and Self-Censorship; 6 An Interview; PART II. MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR JOURNALISM; 7 Watching Arsenio; 8 Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: ''I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout; 9 When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap; 10 Storytellers: The Thomas-Hill Affair; 11 Talking about the Gulf

12 Beyond Assimilation13 ''Why Women Won't Relate to 'Justice' '': Losing Her Voice; 14 For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can't Deal with Black; 15 Miracle in East NewYork; PART III. NEW YORK POSTMODERNISM AND BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES; 16 The Politics of Location: Cinema/Theory/Literature/; 17 Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved; 18 Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of; 19 High Mass; 20 Symposium on Political Correctness; 21 The Culture War within the Culture Wars; 22 Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever; PART IV. MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ARTS

23 Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films24 Multicultural Blues: An Interview with MicheleWallace; 25 Multiculturalism and Oppositionality; 26 Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine; 27 The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism,; PART V. HENRY LOUIS GATES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM; 28 Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar; 29 If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali; 30 Let's Get Serious: Marching with the Million; 31 Out of Step with the Million Man March

32 Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations33 The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity; 34 The Fame Game; 35 Skip Gates's Africa; PART VI. QUEER THEORY AND VISUAL CULTURE; 36 Defacing History; 37 When Dream Girls Grow Old; 38 The French Collection; 39 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual; 40 A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs; 41 ''Harlem on My Mind''; 42 Questions on Feminism; 43 Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor; 44 Doin' the Right Thing: Ten Years after She's Gotta Have It; 45 The Gap Alternative; 46 Art on My Mind

47 Pictures Can Lie48 The Hottentot Venus; 49 Angels in America, Paris Is Burning, and Queer Theory; 50 Toshi Reagon's Birthday; 51 Cheryl Dunye: Sexin' theWatermelon; 52 The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim?; 53 Black Female Spectatorship; 54 Bamboozled: The Archive; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780822386353

0822386356

OCLC:

1055304975