In Media Res

In Media Res
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Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611486506
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
318
Autor:
James Braxton Peterson
Serie:
The Griot Project Book Series
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular culture, including race, technology, gender, media, and politics. Its scope and coverage of a wide range of popular issues make this book a powerful introduction to popular culture studies in the contemporary moment.








In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically engage a wide range of issues, including American imperialism, racial and gender discrimination, the globalization of culture, and the limitations of our new multimedia world. This diverse assortment of works by scholars, activists, and artists models the complex ways that we must engage university students, faculty, staff, and administration in a moment where so many of us are confounded by the “in medias res” nature of our interface with the world in the current moment. Featuring contributions from Imani Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Suheir Hammad, John Jennings, and Adam Mansbach, In Media Res is a primer for academic inquiry into popular culture; American studies; critical media literacy; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Africana studies.

Contents


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Into the Midst of Things


James Braxton Peterson


Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask


Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind


Imani Perry


Chapter 2: Consolidating a Hip Hop Nation: Revisiting the Videotaped Police Beating of Rodney King, 20 Years Later


Tanji Gilliam


Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked: MF DOOM and the Trope of the Mask


Nicholas James


Chapter 4: The Superhero Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture


Will Boone


Part II: Visual Matter


Chapter 5: I Have a Meme: Photography, Memory, and Digital Commemorations of the March on Washington


Paul M. Farber


Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep? A Case Study on Shameful National Orientations


Emily Churilla


Chapter 7: Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men


Scott St. Pierre


Part III: Global Flows


Chapter 8: Selected Poems


Suheir Hammad


Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa


Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson


Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who Love Them: The Blackening of British Culture in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani


Delores B. Phillips


Chapter 11: “A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy,” written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, a short story


Adam Mansbach


Part IV: Culture of Personality


Chapter 12: Richard Pryor’s Pain: From Stand-Up Comedy to Hollywood Film


Sean Springer


Chapter 13: You Are Now Tuned Into the ... Greatest: Jay-Z and the Spectacle of the Cool


Wilfredo Gomez


Chapter 14: Disassembling the “Matrix of Domination”: Janelle Monae’s Transformative Vision


Carrie Walker


Chapter 15: “Dreams of the Drum”: A Keynote Address


Michael Eric Dyson


Bibliography


Sound Recordings


About the Contributors


Index


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