The Cosby Cohort

Author : Cherise A. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442217652

Get Book

The Cosby Cohort by Cherise A. Harris Pdf

The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of other classes, and the impact that all of these experiences had on their adult racial identities. At young ages, this generation of middle class Blacks, whom Harris coins as the Cosby Cohort, was faced with racial displacement, frustration, and the ever-present pressure to emerge victorious against the pull of downward mobility. Even in adulthood, they continue to negotiate the tensions between upward mobility and maintaining ties to the larger Black community and culture. While these young Blacks may have grown up watching The Cosby Show, as the book reveals, their stories indicate a much more complex reality than portrayed by the show.

Author : Cherise A. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442217676

Get Book

The Cosby Cohort by Cherise A. Harris Pdf

The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of other classes, and the impact that all of these experiences had on their adult racial identities. At young ages, this generation of middle class Blacks, whom Harris coins as the Cosby Cohort, was faced with racial displacement, frustration, and the ever-present pressure to emerge victorious against the pull of downward mobility. Even in adulthood, they continue to negotiate the tensions between upward mobility and maintaining ties to the larger Black community and culture. While these young Blacks may have grown up watching The Cosby Show, as the book reveals, their stories indicate a much more complex reality than portrayed by the show.

Author : Dines Martin Dines
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474426510

Get Book

Literature of Suburban Change by Dines Martin Dines Pdf

Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbiaExamines the ways American writers from the 1960s to the present - including John Updike, Richard Ford, Gloria Naylor, Jeffrey Eugenides, D. J. Waldie, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Daz and John Barth - have sought to articulate the complexity of the US suburbsAnalyses the relationships between literary form and the spatial and temporal dimensions of the environment Scrutinises increasingly prominent literary and cultural forms including novel sequences, memoir, drama, graphic novels and short story cyclesCombines insights drawn from recent historiography of the US suburbs and cultural geography with analyses of over twenty-five texts to provide a fresh outlook on the literary history of American suburbiaThe Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. Martin Dines analyses how writers have innovated across a range of forms and genres - including novel sequences, memoirs, plays, comics and short story cycles - in order to make sense of the complexity of suburbia. Drawing on insights from recent historiography and cultural geography, Dines offers a new perspective on the literary history of the US suburbs. He argues that by giving time back to these apparently timeless places, writers help reactivate the suburbs, presenting them not as fixed, finished and familiar but rather as living, multifaceted environments that are still in production and under exploration.

Author : Jervette R. Ward
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813575087

Get Book

Real Sister by Jervette R. Ward Pdf

From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors. The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of the genre. The book’s ten contributors—black female scholars from a variety of disciplines—provide a wide range of perspectives, while considering everything from Basketball Wives to Say Yes to the Dress. As regular viewers of reality television, these scholars are able to note ways in which the genre presents positive images of black womanhood, even as they catalog a litany of stereotypes about race, class, and gender that it tends to reinforce. Rather than simply dismissing reality television as “trash,” this collection takes the genre seriously, as an important touchstone in ongoing cultural debates about what constitutes “trashiness” and “respectability.” Written in an accessible style that will appeal to reality TV fans both inside and outside of academia, Real Sister thus seeks to inspire a more nuanced, thoughtful conversation about the genre’s representations and their effects on the black community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African American families
ISBN : NWU:35556039066683

Get Book

Black Women, Gender & Families by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lester M. Sdorow
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : NWU:35556025170721

Get Book

Psychology by Lester M. Sdorow Pdf

Author : Mary L. Gray,Colin R. Johnson,Brian J. Gilley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479895250

Get Book

Queering the Countryside by Mary L. Gray,Colin R. Johnson,Brian J. Gilley Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires depend upon urban life for meaning. By considering rural queer life, the contributors challenge readers to explore queer experiences in ways that give greater context and texture to modern practices of identity formation. The book’s focus on understudied rural spaces throws into relief the overemphasis of urban locations and structures in the current political and theoretical work on queer sexualities and genders. Queering the Countryside highlights the need to rethink notions of “the closet” and “coming out” and the characterizations of non-urban sexualities and genders as “isolated” and in need of “outreach.” Contributors focus on a range of topics—some obvious, some delightfully unexpected—from the legacy of Matthew Shepard, to how heterosexuality is reproduced at the 4-H Club, to a look at sexual encounters at a truck stop, to a queer reading of TheWizard of Oz. A journey into an unexplored slice of life in rural America, Queering the Countryside offers a unique perspective on queer experience in the modern United States and Canada.

Author : Sandra Harris
Publisher : R & L Education
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015060884478

Get Book

Changing Mindsets of Educational Leaders to Improve Schools by Sandra Harris Pdf

Changing Mindsets of Educational Leaders to Improve Schools: Voices of Doctoral Students responds to the dual question that all graduate and post-graduate programs should ask: As students learn about leadership, does their practice change? If so, does this changing practice result in school improvement? In 16 powerful essays, students enrolled in a doctoral program describe what they believed about school leadership prior to their continuing education, what their practice looked like then, what they believe now, and how this changing mindset is reflected in their practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : African American physicians
ISBN : CORNELL:31924053885541

Get Book

Journal of the National Medical Association by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham S. Chanin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018855810

Get Book

The Flames of Freedom by Abraham S. Chanin Pdf

Neighbors divided over the country's declaration of independence converge, leading to conflict among friends and families.

Author : Sut Jhally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429719455

Get Book

Enlightened Racism by Sut Jhally Pdf

The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture. It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more important elements of its success—its viewers. Through a major study of the audiences of The Cosby Show, the authors treat two issues of great social and political importance—how television, America's most widespread cultural form, influences the way we think, and how our society in the post-Civil Rights era thinks about race, our most widespread cultural problem. This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning facial stereotyping in the United States and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct "enlightened" forms of racism. The authors argue that, in the post-Civil Rights era, a new structure of racial beliefs, based on subtle contradictions between attitudes toward race and class, has brought in its wake this new form of racial thought that seems on the surface to exhibit a new tolerance. However, professors Jhally and Lewis find that because Americans cannot think clearly about class, they cannot, after all, think clearly about race. This groundbreaking book is rooted in an empirical analysis of the reactions to The Cosby Show of a range of ordinary Americans, both black and white. Professors Jhally and Lewis discussed with the different audiences their attitudes toward the program and more generally their understanding and perceptions of issues of race and social class. Enlightened Racism is a major intervention into the public debate about race and perceptions of race—a debate, in the 1990s, at the heart of American political and public life. This book is indispensable to understanding that debate.

Author : Emelobie De Celtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2835266

Get Book

The Pale and the Septs, Or, The Baron of Belgard and the Chiefs of Glenmalure by Emelobie De Celtis Pdf

Author : Lloyd Chiasson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040542402

Get Book

The Press on Trial by Lloyd Chiasson Pdf

Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial. Even though the reporting of a crime may quickly diminish in news value, the trial lingers while drama builds. Although this has become seemingly more pronounced in recent years with the popularity of televised trials, public interest in criminal trials was just as high in 1735 when John Peter Zenger defended his right to free speech, or in 1893 when Lizzie Borden was tried for the murder of her father and stepmother. This book tells the stories of sixteen significant trials in American history and their media coverage, from the Zenger trial in 1735 to the O. J. Simpson trial in 1995. Each chapter relates the history of events leading up to the trial, the people involved, and how the crimes and subsequent trials were reported.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002173215

Get Book

Blues & Soul by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Communication
ISBN : NWU:35556022863070

Get Book

Communication Booknotes by Anonim Pdf