Are You Entertained?: Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Published by Duke University Press 2020

Are You Entertained?

Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by: Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009009

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Are You Entertained? is a thoughtfully constructed collection of scholarly work on blackness and subjectivity and their constant tensions with popular culture and mass media. Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson do a superb job of weaving together these shards of insightful criticism and analysis into a tapestry of fascinating commentary by some of the most dynamic voices in the field.”

-- John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

"The book is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of African American studies as well as to literature and sociology and to the overall study of performance, culture, media, and Blackness. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals."

-- T. N. Allen Choice

“Are you Entertained? is an immensely generative model and guide for doing sharp and powerful work in Black studies. It makes a case for why Black cultural studies matter by pinpointing the liberatory potential of Black popular culture in and for our current lives.”

-- Elliott H. Powell Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. PERFORMING BLACKNESS
1. “Mutts Like Me”: Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era Ralina L. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe Emily J. Lordi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum Vincent Stephens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. The Art of Black Popular Culture H. Ike Okafor-Newsum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. Interview Lisa B. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
II. POLITICIZING BLACKNESS
6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938–1958 Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade Eric Darnell Pritchard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the nba David J. Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
9. Interview Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
III. OWNING BLACKNESS
10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance Sheneese Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture Richard Schur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse Imani Kai Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics Nina Angela Mercer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
14. Interview Mark Anthony Neal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
IV. LOVING BLACKNESS
15. The Booty Don’t Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance Takiyah Nur Amin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight Simone C. Drake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction Kinohi Nishikawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
18. Interview Patricia Hill Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 335

eBook

Published: February 28, 2020
ISBN: 9781478009009