Double Negative : The Black Image and Popular Culture /

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From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gates, Racquel J., 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race in mass media.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans in mass media.
African Americans and mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Race dans les medias.
Noirs americains et medias.
Noirs americains dans la culture populaire.
Noirs americains dans les medias.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Negativity and the Black popular image
  • Eddie Murphy, Coming to America, and formal negativity
  • Relational negativity : the sellout films of the 1990s
  • The circumstantial negativity of Halle Berry
  • Embracing the ratchet : reality television and strategic negativity
  • Conclusion: Empire: a false negative?

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