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Book Synopsis
Argues that many forms of African-American cultural expression display resistance through appropriation, and reconstitution, of denigrating representations fostered by the dominant racist culture. The text includes chapters on DuBois, Alain Locke and Sargent Johnson.

Table of Contents
Introduction.

1. Racist Discourse and the Negro-Ape Metaphor.

2. Slavery, Modernity and the Reclamation of Anterior Cultures.

3. Frederick Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist.

4. Du Bois on the Invention of Race.

5. Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson.

6. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice.

7. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology.

8. Black Marxist in Babylon: Bayard Rustin and the 1968 UFT Strike.

9. A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema.

10. Prime Time Blackness.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 10/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9780631210191, 978-0631210191
      ISBN10: 0631210199
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      Cultural studies Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Argues that many forms of African-American cultural expression display resistance through appropriation, and reconstitution, of denigrating representations fostered by the dominant racist culture. The text includes chapters on DuBois, Alain Locke and Sargent Johnson.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction.

      1. Racist Discourse and the Negro-Ape Metaphor.

      2. Slavery, Modernity and the Reclamation of Anterior Cultures.

      3. Frederick Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist.

      4. Du Bois on the Invention of Race.

      5. Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson.

      6. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice.

      7. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology.

      8. Black Marxist in Babylon: Bayard Rustin and the 1968 UFT Strike.

      9. A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema.

      10. Prime Time Blackness.

      Notes.

      Bibliography.

      Index

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