In Media Res (eBook, PDF)

Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Redaktion: Peterson, James Braxton

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611489743
• Artikelnr.: 74831015

Autorenporträt

James Braxton Petersonis associate professor of English and director of Africana studies at Lehigh University.

Inhaltsangabe

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