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Michele Wallace burst into public consciousness with the 1979 publication of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, a pioneering critique of the misogyny of the Black Power movement and the effects of racism and sexism on black women. Since then, Wallace has produced an extraordinary body of jo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, Michele (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: 1989 THROUGH 2001
  • 1 Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity
  • 2 Places I've Lived
  • 3 Engaging and Escaping in 1994
  • 4 To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the '60s and '70s
  • 5 Censorship and Self-Censorship
  • 6 An Interview
  • PART II. MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR JOURNALISM
  • 7 Watching Arsenio
  • 8 Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: ''I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies!''
  • 9 When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap
  • 10 Storytellers: The Thomas-Hill Affair
  • 11 Talking about the Gulf
  • 12 Beyond Assimilation
  • 13 ''Why Women Won't Relate to 'Justice' '': Losing Her Voice
  • 14 For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can't Deal with Black Feminist Intellectuals
  • 15 Miracle in East New York
  • PART III. NEW YORK POSTMODERNISM AND BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES
  • 16 The Politics of Location: Cinema/Theory/Literature/ Ethnicity/Sexuality/Me
  • 17 Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved
  • 18 Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture
  • 19 High Mass
  • 20 Symposium on Political Correctness
  • 21 The Culture War within the Culture Wars
  • 22 Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever
  • PART IV. MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ARTS
  • 23 Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films
  • 24 Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace
  • 25 Multiculturalism and Oppositionality
  • 26 Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine
  • 27 The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis
  • PART V. HENRY LOUIS GATES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM
  • 28 Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar
  • 29 If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali
  • 30 Let's Get Serious: Marching with the Million
  • 31 Out of Step with the Million Man March
  • 32 Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations
  • 33 The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity
  • 34 The Fame Game
  • 35 Skip Gates's Africa
  • PART VI. QUEER THEORY AND VISUAL CULTURE
  • 36 Defacing History
  • 37 When Dream Girls Grow Old
  • 38 The French Collection
  • 39 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture
  • 40 A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs
  • 41 ''Harlem on My Mind''
  • 42 Questions on Feminism
  • 43 Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor
  • 44 Doin' the Right Thing: Ten Years after She's Gotta Have It
  • 45 The Gap Alternative
  • 46 Art on My Mind
  • 47 Pictures Can Lie
  • 48 The Hottentot Venus
  • 49 Angels in America, Paris Is Burning, and Queer Theory
  • 50 Toshi Reagon's Birthday
  • 51 Cheryl Dunye: Sexin' the Watermelon
  • 52 The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now?
  • 53 Black Female Spectatorship
  • 54 Bamboozled: The Archive
  • Index