| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
Black middle-class performances |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
TsemoBridget Harris, 1970- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
YoungVershawn Ashanti, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Detroit |
| Published: |
Wayne State University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xxv, 366 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
African American life series |
| Subject: |
African Americans in the performing arts - |
| Subject: |
Middle class - United States - |
| Subject: |
African Americans - Race identity - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336427/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780814336427electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780814334683pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0814334687pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction : performing citizenship / Vershawn Ashanti Young -- Performing responsibility. Bourgeois fugue : notes on the life of the negro intellectual / Houston A. Baker Jr. -- Pockets of sanity / Venise Berry -- Momma, Obama, and me : black leadership/black legitimacy / Dwight McBride --Selling Dr. King's dream : blackness and tourism in Atlanta / Sara F. Mason -- The drug of white supremacy / Amiri Baraka -- Performing womanhood. Black girls and representative citizenship / Nazera Sadiq Wright -- Black bourgeois women's narratives in the post-Reagan, "post-civil rights," "postfeminist" era / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Rosiland / Eileen Cherry-Chandler -- Scenes from Single black female / Lisa B. Thompson -- Performing Media. Of afropunks and other anarchic signifiers of contrarynegritude / Greg Tate -- Hip-hop and capitalistic interests / Damion Waymer -- Middle-class ideology in African American postwar comic strips / Angela M. Nelson -- Put some skirts on the cards! blackwomen's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisinin the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Performing sexuality. The black church and the blues body / Kelly Brown Douglas -- "A kind of end to blackness" : Reginald McKnight's He sleeps and the body politics of race and class / Candice M. Jenkins -- Black ladies and black magic women / Lisa Thompson -- "Boojie!": a question of authenticity / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Afterword / by Mary Pattillo |