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Re-imagining Black women : a critique of post-feminist and post-racial melodrama in culture and politics /

"From Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women--and Blackness more broadly--are understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects of public contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: melodrama, liminality, and "post"-politics: neo-liberal racial and gender formation in the new millennium
  • Splitting Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and melodramas of "closeness" in U.S. national community formation
  • Unpacking President Barack Obama's "improbable story": a case study of gender, race, class, and melodrama in electoral politics
  • Diary of a mad Black(wo)man: Tyler Perry, wounded masculinity, and post-feminist, postracial melodrama
  • The reality of the white male rapist: Black women's rape, melodrama, and U.S.-based American political development
  • MeToo? Black women, melodrama, and sexual harassment
  • Conclusion: turbulent futures: post-politics as an analytic
  • Coda: post-politics in the era of COVID-19.