Blackness Is Burning : Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition /

"One of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier's popular films, black mother and daughter family melodramas, Bill Cosby's cart...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russworm, TreaAndrea M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture.
Noirs americains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Recognition and the Intersubjective View of Race
  • 2. Sidney Poitier and the Contradictions of Black Psychological Expertise
  • 3. Baaaddd Black Mamas and the Chronic Failure of Recognition
  • 4. Pimping (Really) Ain't Easy: Black Pulp Masculinities and the Flight from Recognition
  • 5. Bill Cosby and the Rise and Fall of Blackness at Play
  • 6. "Fix My Life!": Post-Civil Rights and the Problem of Recognition.

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