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

Russworm, TreaAndrea M. Book Download - 2016 Community Rating: 4.6 out of 5

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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 proof-civil rights black/American culture, ThreaAndrea 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.

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Nice submitted by ann arbor air on June 16, 2021, 3:40pm Cool book it’s well authored

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SERIES
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series



PUBLISHED
Wayne State University Press
Year Published: 2016
Language: English
Format: Book Download

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0814340520
9780814340523

SUBJECTS
African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.