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Appropriating Blackness-CL de E. Patrick Johnson

Appropriating Blackness-CL

Autor E. Patrick Johnson, E. Patrickjohnson, John Son
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 iul 2003

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Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (2004)
Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson s provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed toward widely divergent ends both within and outside African American culture. "Appropriating Blackness" develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable. Drawing on performance theory, queer studies, literary analysis, film criticism, and ethnographic fieldwork, Johnson describes how diverse constituencies persistently try to prescribe the boundaries of "authentic" blackness and how performance highlights the futility of such enterprises.

Johnson looks at various sites of performed blackness, including Marlon Riggs s influential documentary "Black Is . . . Black Ain t" and comedic routines by Eddie Murphy, David Alan Grier, and Damon Wayans. He analyzes nationalist writings by Amiri Baraka and Eldridge Cleaver, the vernacular of black gay culture, an oral history of his grandmother s experience as a domestic worker in the South, gospel music as performed by a white Australian choir, and pedagogy in a performance studies classroom. By exploring the divergent aims and effects of these performances ranging from resisting racism, sexism, and homophobia to excluding sexual dissidents from the black community Johnson deftly analyzes the multiple significations of blackness and their myriad political implications. His reflexive account considers his own complicity, as ethnographer and teacher, in authenticating narratives of blackness."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822331544
ISBN-10: 0822331543
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 16 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 155 x 238 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press

Recenzii

"Johnson adds some heretofore unheard of twists to the continuing saga of this most important black intellectual thought. . . . [A] welcome addition to the field."
--Toni Lester, "Lambda Book Report"
""Appropriating Blackness "is compelling . . . because of the range, rigor, and cogent insight it provides relative to studies of black performance. . . . I commend this book, especially, to scholars of cultural politics, performance, race, queer studies, and those that take up these issues in critical media studies."
--Robert Avery, "Liminalities"
""Appropriating Blackness" marks a daring intervention in performance studies and African American studies. Its critical and ethical concerns will resonate for those working in numerous other fields, such as cultural anthropology; philosophy; critical ethnicity and race studies; gay, lesbian and queer studies; pedagogy studies; and music."
--Antonio Viego, "GLQ"
"Johnson's first book . . . is an accomplished and original study that deftly traverses both the mythology of, and networks of power that remain embedded within, America's deep racial segregation. . . . [I]t is obvious that he seems destined to join Cornell West as a leading authority on race, not to mention performance studies and queer theory both in the United States and abroad."
--James Tierney, "M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture"
""Appropriating Blackness "offers an illuminating and compelling example of a critical politics of performing race. It decisively intervenes in disciplinary dialogues to rethink performance theory through the praxis of blackness, and to rethink black theory through performance. . . . "Appropriating Blackness" is one of the most significant studies to emerge in performance studies. It is a book we will need, a book we will use, and a book that marks our best disciplinary work."
--Kristin M. Langellier, "Text and Performance Quarterly"
"With "Appropriating Blackness, " E. Patrick Johnson has given us a book worthy of the breadth its title signals. It is written in an excellent and refreshingly clear prose style which sacrifices nothing in the way of complexity of the ideas being presented. Johnson makes his observations about the relatedness of performance and blackness more compelling with each successive case study."--Dwight A. McBride, coeditor of "Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction"

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Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed--toward widely divergent ends--both within and outside African American culture. "Appropriating Blackness" develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity--avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable. Drawing on performance theory, queer studies, literary analysis, film criticism, and ethnographic fieldwork, Johnson describes how diverse constituencies persistently try to prescribe the boundaries of "authentic" blackness and how performance highlights the futility of such enterprises. Johnson looks at various sites of performed blackness, including Marlon Riggs's influential documentary "Black Is . . . Black Ain't" and comedic routines by Eddie Murphy, David Alan Grier, and Damon Wayans. He analyzes nationalist writings by Amiri Baraka and Eldridge Cleaver, the vernacular of black gay culture, an oral history of his grandmother's experience as a domestic worker in the South, gospel music as performed by a white Australian choir, and pedagogy in a performance studies classroom. By exploring the divergent aims and effects of these performances--ranging from resisting racism, sexism, and homophobia to excluding sexual dissidents from the black community--Johnson deftly analyzes the multiple significations of blackness and their myriad political implications. His reflexive account considers his own complicity, as ethnographer and teacher, in authenticating narratives of blackness.

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""Appropriating Blackness" is a wonderful study that makes important and timely contributions across many fields. E. Patrick Johnson is a skilled reader of texts and offers useful introductions to complex theories of race, sexuality, and culture."--David Roman, author of" Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS"

Notă biografică

E. Patrick Johnson is a performance artist and Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

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