Boys Boyz Bois

Author : Keith Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135496074

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Boys, Boyz, Bois by Keith Harris Pdf

Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity, as ethnics refers to a system of morality and valuation and as ethics refers to a care of the self and ethical subject formation. The texts of analysis include recent films by black/African American filmmakers, gangsta rap and hip-hop and black star persona: texts ranging from Blaxploitation and New Black Cinema to contemporary music video to autobiography and the public image of Sidney Poitier. The book is a significant contribution to cultural studies and gender studies and critical race theory. What is distinctive about the book is the question of ethics as a question of race and gender.

Author : Keith Malone Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African American men in motion pictures
ISBN : 0493631666

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Boys, Boyz, Boies by Keith Malone Harris Pdf

Author : William L. Andrews,Douglas Edward Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 9780195157727

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Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) by William L. Andrews,Douglas Edward Taylor Pdf

This casebook reprints a selection of important and representative reviews, criticism and scholarly analysis of Richard Wright's 'Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth' (1991).

Author : Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628954838

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Animals and Race by Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres Pdf

The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.

Author : John White,Sabine Haenni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135979317

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Fifty Key American Films by John White,Sabine Haenni Pdf

Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives. This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of: Citizen Kane Casablanca Psycho Taxi Driver Blade Runner Pulp Fiction Amongst a raft of well-known films, the work of some of America’s best known directors, such as Lynch, Scorsese, Coppola and Scott, is discussed. This book is essential reading for students of film, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to explore the impact of American cinema.

Author : D. Richardson,J. McLaughlin,M. Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230625266

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Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory by D. Richardson,J. McLaughlin,M. Casey Pdf

Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and gender that may emerge out of and at the interface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : UCAL:C2723973

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The Boy's Own Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr Brittany C Slatton,Dr Kamesha Spates
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472425126

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Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine? by Dr Brittany C Slatton,Dr Kamesha Spates Pdf

Presenting new interview and auto-ethnographic data, and drawing on an array of theoretical approaches methodologies, Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine? explores the formation of gendered and sexual identity in the lives of black men, shedding light on the manner in which these are affected by class and social structure. It examines the intersecting oppressions of race, gender and class, while acknowledging and discussing the extent to which black men’s social lives differ as a result of their varying degrees of cumulative disadvantage.

Author : Steven J. Ross
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470673645

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Movies and American Society by Steven J. Ross Pdf

The second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movies have changed—and been changed by—American society from 1905 to the present. Each chapter includes an introduction, discussion questions, an essay examining the issues of the period, primary documents, and a list of further reading and screenings Includes a new chapter on “American Film in the Age of Terror” and new essays for Chapter 9 (“Race, Violence, and Film”) and Chapter 13 (“Hollywood Goes Global”), as well as updated Reading and Screenings sections Discusses all the major periods in American film history from the first nickelodeons to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the globalization of Hollywood Demonstrates the unique influence of movies on all aspects of American culture, from ideology, politics, and gender to class, war, and race relations Engaging and accessible for students, with jargon-free essays and primary documents that show social practices and controversies as well as the fun and cultural influence of movies and movie-going

Author : Shawan M. Worsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135235635

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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture by Shawan M. Worsley Pdf

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes’ persistence. This book furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.

Author : Emine Lâle Demirtürk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611475302

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The Contemporary African American Novel by Emine Lâle Demirtürk Pdf

This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the "neo-urban novel," and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday life in the novelistic representations of the white dominant urban order. African American fictional representations of the city have political significance in that the "neo-urban novel" explores the nature of the American society at large. This book explores the need to understand how whiteness works, what it forecloses, and what it occasionally opens up in everyday life in American society.

Author : Josephine Metcalf,Carina Spaulding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317184386

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African American Culture and Society After Rodney King by Josephine Metcalf,Carina Spaulding Pdf

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period allows reflection on the shifting state of race in America, considering these stark realities as well as the election of the country's first black president, a growing African American middle class, and the black authors and artists significantly contributing to America's cultural output. Divided into six sections, (The African American Criminal in Culture and Media; Slave Voices and Bodies in Poetry and Plays; Representing African American Gender and Sexuality in Pop-Culture and Society; Black Cultural Production in Music and Dance; Obama and the Politics of Race; and Ongoing Realities and the Meaning of 'Blackness') this book is an engaging collection of chapters, varied in critical content and theoretical standpoints, linked by their intellectual stimulation and fascination with African American life, and questioning how and to what extent American culture and society is 'past' race. The chapters are united by an intertwined sense of progression and regression which addresses the diverse dynamics of continuity and change that have defined shifts in the African American experience over the past twenty years.

Author : Racquel J. Gates
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002239

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Double Negative by Racquel J. Gates Pdf

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. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showing how some of the most disreputable representations of black people in popular media can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot. Rather than falling back on claims that negative portrayals hinder black progress, Gates demonstrates how reality shows such as Basketball Wives, comedians like Katt Williams, and movies like Coming to America play on "negative" images to take up questions of assimilation and upward mobility, provide a respite from the demands of respectability, and explore subversive ideas. By using negativity as a framework to illustrate these texts' social and political work as they reverberate across black culture, Gates opens up new lines of inquiry for black cultural studies.

Author : Claudrena N. Harold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135913021

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The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942 by Claudrena N. Harold Pdf

The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions, ideologies, and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA to create a dynamic and multifaceted movement. A testament to the multidimensionality of black political subjectivity, Southern Garveyites fashioned a politics reflective of their international, regional, and local attachments. Moving beyond the usual focus on New York and the charismatic personality of Marcus Garvey, this book situates black workers at the center of its analysis and aims to provide a much-needed grassroots perspective on the Garvey movement. More than simply providing a regional history of one of the most important Pan-African movements of the twentieth century, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South demonstrates the ways in which racial, class, and spatial dynamics resulted in complex, and at times competing articulations of black nationalism.

Author : Kathy L. Glass
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415979054

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Courting Communities by Kathy L. Glass Pdf

Courting Communities focuses on the writing and oratory of nineteenth-century African-American women whose racial uplift projects troubled the boundaries of race, nation and gender. In particular, it reexamines the politics of gender in nationalist movements and black women's creative response within and against both state and insurgent black nationalist discourses. Courting Communities highlights the ideas and rhetorical strategies of female activists considered to be less important than the prominent male nationalists. Yet their story is significant precisely because it does not fit into the pre-established categories of nationalism and leadership bequeathed to us from the past.