Title Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture / Shawan M. Worsley.

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New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in African American history and culture
	Studies in African American history and culture.
Note	Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 2, 2009).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Race, racism and Black popular culture -- Making the past accountable : The wind done gone and stereotypes of Black women -- Audience reception through the lens of a $10 million dollar lawsuit -- Unholy narratives and shameless acts : Kara Walker's side-long glance -- Racist visual images? : museum comment books and viewer response -- Troubling Blackness : The source magazine and the hip-hop nation -- The narrative disrupted : reading letters, rewriting identity -- Conclusion : reframing debates and analyses of controversial Black culture.
Summary	Worsley analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination 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.
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Subject	African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans in popular culture.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African American arts -- 20th century.
	African American arts.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Racism in popular culture.
	United States.
	Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States.
	Stereotypes (Social psychology)
	Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Hip-hop.
	Social aspects.
	Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Rap (Music) -- Social aspects.
	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular culture.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Worsley, Shawan M. Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture. New York : Routledge, 2009 (DLC) 2009018163
ISBN	9780203866573 (electronic book)
	0203866576 (electronic book)
	0415804868 (hardback)
	9780415804868 (hardback)
	9780415804868
Standard No.	9786612283475
Report No.	MYILIB_CUp

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