Black popular culture / a project by Michele Wallace ; edited by Gina Dent.

Other author Wallace, Michele.
Other author Dent, Gina.
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : Bay Press, 1992.
Descriptionix, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Subjects
African Americans.
United States--Civilization. --African American influences.

SeriesDiscussions in contemporary culture ; no. 8
Discussions in contemporary culture no. 8. ^A359233
Contents Black pleasure, Black joy : an introduction / Gina Dent -- What is this "Black" in Black popular culture? / Stuart Hall -- Nihilism in Black America / Cornel West -- Dialectically down with the critical program / bell hooks -- The documentary impulse in contemporary U.S. African-American film / Valerie Smith -- The politics of interpretation : Black critics, filmmakers, audiences / Jacqueline Bobo -- The Black man's burden / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The accusatory space / Jacquie Jones -- Unleash the queen / Marlon T. Riggs -- The body in question / Lisa Kennedy -- Getting down to get over : Romare Bearden's use of pornography and the problem of the Black female body in Afro-U.S. art / Judith Wilson -- Boyz n the hood and Jungle fever / Michele Wallace -- "You cain't trus' it" : experts witnessing in the case of rap / Houston A. Baker Jr. -- Toward a redefinition of the urban : the collision of culture / John Jeffries.
Contents Two words on music : Black community / Sherley Anne Williams -- Nostalgia for the present : cultural resistance in Detroit 1977-1987 / Kofi Natambu -- The multicultural wars / Hazel V. Carby -- Popular culture and the economics of alienation / Julianne Malveaux -- Black texts/Black contexts / Tricia Rose -- Seizing the moving image : reflections of a Black independent producer / Ada Gay Griffin -- About face : the evolution of a Black producer / Thomas Allen Harris -- Preface to a one-hundred-and eighty volume patricide note : yet another few thousand words on the death of Miles Davis and the problem of the Black male genius / Greg Tate -- 69 / Arthur Jafa -- "Black is, Black ain't" : notes on de-essentializing Black identities / Isaac Julien -- Pan-American postnationalism : another world order / Coco Fusco -- Afro-kitsch / Manthia Diawara -- Race, identity, and political culture / Manning Marable.
Contents It's a family affair / Paul Gilroy -- Black nationalism : the sixties and the nineties / Angela Y. Davis -- Afterword : "Why are there no great Black artists?" : the problem of visuality in African-American culture / Michele Wallace.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, DISCUSSIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER N72.S6 D57.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 347-366)
ISBN0941920232 (pbk.) :

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