ISBN:
9781611486490
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 291 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
The Griot project book series
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Race relations
;
Mass media and race relations
;
Popular culture
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Massenmedien
;
Massenkultur
Abstract:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: into the midst of things / James Braxton Peterson -- Head matter : the mind and the mask -- An empire state of mind / Imani Perry -- Consolidating a hip hop nation : revisiting the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, twenty years later / Tanji Gilliam -- Head on straight, mask on crooked : MF doom and the trope of the mask / Nicholas James -- The superhero aesthetics in hip hop culture / Will Boone -- Visual matter -- I have a meme : photography, interactive memory, and digital commemorations of the march on Washington / Paul M. Farber -- How deep? skin deep? : a case study on shameful national orientations / Emily Churilla -- Faggoty/white/uniform : gays in the military and a few good men / Scott St. Pierre -- Global flows -- Selected poems / Suheir Hammad -- The communal womb in Haile Gerima's sankofa / Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson -- South Asian hip hop wannabes and the chavs who love them : the blackening of British culture in Gautam Malkani's londonstani / Delores B. Phillips -- "A true and faithful account of Mr. Ota Benga The Pygmy, written by M. Berman, zookeeper, a short story / Adam Mansbach -- Culture of personality -- Richard Pryor's pain : from stand-up comedy to Hollywood film / Sean Springer -- You are now tuned into the . . . greatest : jay-z and the spectacle of the cool / Wilfredo Gomez -- Disassembling the "matrix of domination" : Janelle Monae's transformative vision / Carrie Walker -- "Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address / Michael Eric Dyson -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: into the midst of things
,
Head matter : the mind and the mask ; An empire state of mind
,
Consolidating a hip hop nation : revisiting the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, twenty years later
,
Head on straight, mask on crooked : MF doom and the trope of the mask
,
The superhero aesthetics in hip hop culture
,
Visual matter ; I have a meme : photography, interactive memory, and digital commemorations of the march on Washington
,
How deep? skin deep? : a case study on shameful national orientations
,
Faggoty/white/uniform : gays in the military and a few good men
,
Global flows ; Selected poems
,
The communal womb in Haile Gerima's sankofa
,
South Asian hip hop wannabes and the chavs who love them : the blackening of British culture in Gautam Malkani's londonstani
,
"A true and faithful account of Mr. Ota Benga The Pygmy, written by M. Berman, zookeeper, a short story
,
Culture of personality ; Richard Pryor's pain : from stand-up comedy to Hollywood film
,
You are now tuned into the . . . greatest : jay-z and the spectacle of the cool
,
Disassembling the "matrix of domination" : Janelle Monae's transformative vision
,
"Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address
,
Bibliography ; Index ; About the contributors.
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