ISBN:
9781611477092
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 227 S.
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Ill.
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24 cm
Series Statement:
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Gramsci, Antonio Political and social views
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Hegemony Social aspects
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African Americans Politics and government
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Popular culture
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Politics and culture
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Communication Political aspects
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Protest movements
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Government, Resistance to
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United States Race relations
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Political aspects
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United States Race relations
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Gramsci, Antonio 1891-1937
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Hegemonie
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Begriff
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USA
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Massenkultur
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Politik
Abstract:
"Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States : Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword: A moment of Blackness, and zombies
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Part I. Race and popular culture ; Hegemony and disruption in film, television, and documentary
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Racial shadows, threat, neoliberalism, and trauma : reading The book of Eli
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Bizarre foods : white privilege and the neocolonial palate
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Remembering radical Black dissent : traumatic counter-memories in contemporary documentaries about the Black power movement
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Part II. Race and politics ; Change vs. the "dead weight" of tradition in politics
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The mother tongue as "back talk" : resisting racism in Congressional hearings
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At the margins of the American political imagination : Black feminist politics and the racial politics of the new Democrats
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The birthers : hegemony and the politics of postracial positionality
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Part III. Race and resistance ; "Pessimism of the intelligence" and "optimism of the will"
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Embodying unauthorized immigrants : counterhegemonic protest and the rhetorical power of the "material diatribe"
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Racing/sexing the rhetorical situation : Angela Davis's embodied contextual reconstruction
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The Black public intellectual of the Joshua generation : answering the Gramscian call
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About the contributors.
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