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
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Summary:"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 cartoon Fat Albert, pulpy black pimp narratives, and several aspects of post-civil rights black/American culture, TreaAndrea M. Russworm argues that humanizing blackness in popular and narrative culture has long been a barely attainable and impossible to sustain cultural agenda. Russworm identifies and problematizes the many ways in which psychoanalytic culture has functioned as a governing racial ideology that is built around a flawed understanding of trying to 'recognize' the racial other as human."--Page [4] of cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations ;
ISBN:9780814340523

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