Am I Black Enough for You? – Popular Culture from the `Hood and Beyond

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 1997

Am I Black Enough for You offers astute analysis of the liberating possibilities of representation that lie at the core of contemporary black popular culture.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253211057
ISBN-10: 0253211050
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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As the haunting sounds of Isaac Hayes's 'Walk On By' filled the theater, I was moved by the film's enthralling, through depressing, conclusion. Larenz Tate's character, Anthony Curtis, rode off into the abyss that has prematurely claimed the lives of so many African American men, the penitentiary.

Cuprins

Introduction: Representin' the Real Pg. 1
Chapter 1: Real Niggaz Don't Die: Generational Shifts in Contemporary Popular Culture. Pg. 16
Chapter 2: Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular
Culture. Pg. 50
Chapter 3: A Small Introduction to the 'G' Funk Era: Gangsta Rap and Black Masculinity in Contemporary
Los Angeles. Pg. 80
Chapter 4: Young, Black, and Don't Give a Fuck: Experiencing the Cinema of Nihilism. Pg. 109
Chapter 5: True to the Game: Basketball as the Embodiment of Blackness in Contemporary Popular
Culture. Pg. 141
Epilogue: Some New Improved Shit. Pg. 173

Notă biografică

Todd Edward Boyd

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