From bourgeois to boojie : Black middle-class performances / edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young with Bridget Harris Tsemo.
Material type: TextSeries: African American life seriesPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 366 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814336427
- 0814336426
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Middle class -- United States
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique
- Classes moyennes -- États-Unis
- Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Middle class
- United States
- 305.5/508996073 22
- E185.625 .F76 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : performing citizenship / Vershawn Ashanti Young -- Performing responsibility. Bourgeois fugue : notes on the life of the negro intellectual / Houston A. Baker Jr. -- Pockets of sanity / Venise Berry -- Momma, Obama, and me : black leadership/black legitimacy / Dwight McBride -- Selling Dr. King's dream : blackness and tourism in Atlanta / Sara F. Mason -- The drug of white supremacy / Amiri Baraka -- Performing womanhood. Black girls and representative citizenship / Nazera Sadiq Wright -- Black bourgeois women's narratives in the post-Reagan, "post-civil rights," "postfeminist" era / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Rosiland / Eileen Cherry-Chandler -- Scenes from Single black female / Lisa B. Thompson -- Performing Media. Of afropunks and other anarchic signifiers of contrary negritude / Greg Tate -- Hip-hop and capitalistic interests / Damion Waymer -- Middle-class ideology in African American postwar comic strips / Angela M. Nelson -- Put some skirts on the cards! black women's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley -- Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Performing sexuality. The black church and the blues body / Kelly Brown Douglas -- "A kind of end to blackness" : Reginald McKnight's He sleeps and the body politics of race and class / Candice M. Jenkins -- Black ladies and black magic women / Lisa Thompson -- "Boojie!": a question of authenticity / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Afterword / by Mary Pattillo.
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