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Black cultural traffic: crossroads in global performance and popular culture

Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (Tricia Rose, page vii)
  • Twenty Questions (Donald Byrd, page ix)
  • Introduction: Traveling While Black (Kennell Jackson, page 1)
  • PART ONE: Crossroads and Intersections in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture
  • When is African Theater "Black"? (Catherine M. Cole, page 43)
  • Performing Blackness Down Under: Gospel Music in Australia (E. Patrick Johnson, page 59)
  • Passing and the Problematic of Multiracial Pride (or, Why One Mixed Girl Still Answers to Black) (Danzy Senna, page 83)
  • The Shadows of Texts: Will Black Music and Singers Sell Everything on Television? (Kennell Jackson, page 88)
  • PART TWO: Stop Signs and Signposts: Stabilities and Instabilities in Black Performance and Black Popular Culture
  • Optic Black: Naturalizing the Refusal to Fit (W. T. Lhamon, Jr., page 111)
  • Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture (Kobena Mercer, page 141)
  • Keepin' It Real: Disidentification and Its Discontents (Tim'm T. West, page 162)
  • Faking the Funk? Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (Hybrid) Black Celebrity (Caroline A. Streeter, page 185)
  • Interlude: Black Artists on Issues of Culture and Performance (page 208)
  • PART THREE: International Congestion: Globalization, Dispersions, and Black Cultural Travel
  • Black Community, Black Spectacle: Performance and Race in Transatlantic Perspective (Tyler Stovall, page 221)
  • The 1960s in Bamako: Malick Sidibé and James Brown (Manthia Diawara, page 242)
  • Global Hip-Hop and the African Diaspora (Halifu Osumare, page 266)
  • Continental Riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts (Paulla A. Ebron, page 289)
  • PART FOUR: Trafficking in Black Visual Images: Television, Film, and New Media
  • Where Have All the Black Shows Gone? (Herman Gray, page 311)
  • Hip-Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety, and the Discourse of Americana (Nicole R. Fleetwood, page 326)
  • Spike Lee's Bamboozled (Harry J. Elam, Jr., page 346)
  • Moving Violations: Performing Globalization and Feminism in Set It Off (Jennifer Devere Brody, page 363)
  • Change Clothes and Go: A Postscript to Postblackness (Harry J. Elam, Jr., page 379)
  • Contributors (page 389)
  • Index (page 397)
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Published: c2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472098408 (hardcover)
  • 9780472025459 (ebook)
  • 9780472068401 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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