{"product_id":"race-and-hegemonic-struggle-in-the-united-states-pop-culture-politics-and-protest-9781611477597","title":"Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRace and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume call for renewed attention to Gramscian political thought to examine, understand, interpret and explain the persistent contradictions, ambivalence, and paradoxes in racial representations and material realities. This book’s contributors rely on Gramsci’s ideas to explore how popular, political, and resistant discourses reproduce or transform our understandings of race and racism, social inequalities, and power relationships in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together the chapters confront forms of collective and cultural amnesia about race and racism suggested in the phrases “postrace,” “postracial,” and “postracism,\" while exposing the historical, institutional, social, and political forces and constraints that make antiracism, atonement, and egalitarian change so difficult to achieve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments Foreword A Moment of Blackness—And Zombies  Eric King Watts Introduction: Gramsci, Race, and Communication Studies Mary E. Triece and Michael G. Lacy Part I: Race and Popular Culture Hegemony and Disruption in Film, Television, and Documentary Mary E. Triece  1.Racial Shadows, Threat, Neoliberalism, and  Trauma: Reading The Book of Eli  Michael G. Lacy 2.Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the  Neocolonial Palate Casey Ryan Kelly 3.Remembering Radical Black Dissent:  Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary  Documentaries about the Black Power Movement Kristen Hoerl   Part II:Race and Politics Change vs. the “Dead Weight” of Tradition in Politics Mary E. Triece  4.The Mother Tongue as “Back Talk”: Resisting  Racism in Congressional Hearings Mary E. Triece 5.At the Margins of the American Political  Imagination: Black Feminist Politics and the Racial  Politics of the New Democrats Brittany Lewis 6.The Birthers: Hegemony and the Politics of Postracial Positionality  Evan Beaumont Center   Part III:Race and Resistance “Pessimism of the Intelligence” and “Optimism of the Will” Mary E. Triece  7.Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants: Counterhegemonic Protest and the Rhetorical Power of the “Material Diatribe” David W. Seitz 8.Racing\/Sexing the Rhetorical Situation: Angela Davis’s Embodied Contextual  Reconstruction Linda Diane Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski  9.The Black Public Intellectual of the Joshua  Generation: Answering the Gramscian Call  Anna M. Young  About the Contributors","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041691959639,"sku":"9781611477597","price":39.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611477597.jpg?v=1750951324","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-and-hegemonic-struggle-in-the-united-states-pop-culture-politics-and-protest-9781611477597","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}