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Author Banks, Patricia Ann.

Title Represent : art and identity among the black upper-middle class / Patricia A. Banks.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 121 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 3
Routledge research in race and ethnicity ; 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Constructing black identities -- Seeing ourselves: a portrait of cultural participation and appearance -- Narratives of the past: a portrait of cultural participation and history -- Measures of worth: a portrait of cultural participation and dignity -- Advancing the race: a portrait of cultural participation and community -- New perspectives on race, cultural participation, and the black middle-class.
Summary Examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. This book documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.
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Subject African Americans -- Race identity -- United States.
African Americans -- Race identity.
United States.
African American art -- Social aspects.
African American art.
Social aspects.
Art and race.
Art and race.
Art and the middle class.
Art and the middle class.
Ethnicity in art.
Ethnicity in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Banks, Patricia Ann. Represent. New York : Routledge, 2010 9780415800600 (DLC) 2009025526 (OCoLC)311758755
ISBN 9780203862865 (electronic book)
0203862864 (electronic book)
9780415800600 (hardcover)
0415800609 (hardcover)