• From bourgeois to boojie : Black middle-class performances
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: Black middle-class performances
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: TsemoBridget Harris, 1970-
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: YoungVershawn Ashanti,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Detroit
    [NT 47263] Published: Wayne State University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 366 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47298] Series: African American life series
    [NT 47266] Subject: African Americans in the performing arts -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Middle class - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: African Americans - Race identity -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336427/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780814336427electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780814334683pbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0814334687pbk.
    [NT 60779] 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
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