Are You Entertained?
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2020
335 pages
978-1-4780-0900-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and artist statements on topics ranging from music and dance to Black Twitter and the NBA's dress code, the contributors consider what culture and Blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy.
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Simone C. Drake | Dwan K. Henderson
Are You Entertained?
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
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02/2020
Duke University Press
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Simone C. Drake | Dwan K. Henderson
Are You Entertained?
Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Book
02/2020
Duke University Press
€136.50
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Simone C. Drake is Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University and author of When We Imagine Grace: Black Men and Subject Making.
Dwan K. Henderson is on the English and American Studies faculty at the Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dwan K. Henderson is on the English and American Studies faculty at the Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content
Introduction 1
I. Performing Blackness
1. "Mutts Like Me": Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph 29
2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi 44
3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens 58
4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum 77
5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson 91
II. Politicizing Blackness
6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938-1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua 101
7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard 118
8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard 134
9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting 153
III. Owning Blackness
10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson 161
11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur 175
12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson 191
13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer 207
14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal 229
IV. Loving Blackness
15. The Booty Don't Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin 237
16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight / Simone C. Drake 252
17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa 268
18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins 288
Contributors 301
Index 307
I. Performing Blackness
1. "Mutts Like Me": Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph 29
2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi 44
3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens 58
4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum 77
5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson 91
II. Politicizing Blackness
6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938-1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua 101
7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard 118
8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard 134
9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting 153
III. Owning Blackness
10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson 161
11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur 175
12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson 191
13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer 207
14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal 229
IV. Loving Blackness
15. The Booty Don't Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin 237
16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight / Simone C. Drake 252
17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa 268
18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins 288
Contributors 301
Index 307
