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Title African American Culture and Society After Rodney King : Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism' / edited by Josephine Metcalf, Carina Spaulding
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Ltd., [2015]

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Contents Introduction / Josephine Metcalf & Carina Spaulding : "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire" -- The African American criminal in culture and media -- Ill parallels : Ice-T, iceberg slim, and portrait of a pimp / Will Turner -- From deflection to deconstruction: the transformation of Ishmael Reed's satire in juice! / Jiri Salamoun -- Slave voices and bodies in poetry and plays -- Of diggin' and fakin' : historiopoiesis in Suzan-Lori Parks and contemporary African American culture / Ilka Saal -- Poetry in the archive : reimagining amistad in Kevin Young's ardency / Carl Plasa -- Representing African American gender and sexuality in pop-culture and society -- (Dis)robing django unchained : the black damsel in distress as a progressive image / Celeste Doaks -- From beyoncé to brandy : celebrity and the black hair care industry since 1992 -- The rebirth of queer : exile, kinship, and metamorphosis in Dee Rees' pariah / Aneeka A. Henderson -- Black cultural production in music and dance -- Popularizing African American history and culture through dance : the ethics and politics of the artistic visions of Alvin Ailey and Judith Jamison / Carmen Dexl -- Breakbeat syncretism : the drum sample in African American popular music / Rowan Oliver -- Twenty-first century blues : treme, jazz, and the remaking of New Orleans -- Obama and the politics of race / Brian Jones -- The Wright liability : barack obama's response to racial controversy -- "Not one of us, Barack Obama, the "paranoid style" and the polarization of american politics / Kevern Verney -- A double edged sword : Ebony Magazine and the 2008 Obama campaign / James West -- In closing: ongoing realities and the meaning of "blackness" -- "Being afraid of "post-blackness"" : what's neoliberalism got to do with it? / Marlon Lieber -- Black art in the age of "new Jim Crow" : delimiting the scope of racial justice and black film production since Rodney King / Jonathan Munby -- Afterword / John Oldfield -- Index
Summary 1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period allows reflection on the shifting state of race in America, considering these stark realities as well as the election of the country's first black president, a growing African American middle class, and the black authors and artists significantly contributing to America's cultural output. Divided i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Culture -- African Americans -- 20th century
Culture -- African Americans -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Form Electronic book
Author Spaulding, Carina, editor
Metcalf, Josephine, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781472455406
1472455401