Re-Imagining Black Women : A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Women, Black > Political activity.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Political activity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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