In media res : race, identity, and pop culture in the twenty-first century / edited by James Braxton Peterson.
"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...
| Uniform Title: | Griot Project book series.
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| Language: | English |
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Lewisburg :
Bucknell University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Griot Project book series.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: into the midst of things / James Braxton Peterson
- Part I. Head Matter : The mind and the Mask: 1. An empire state of mind / Imani Perry; 2. Consolidating a hip hop nation : revisiting the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, twenty years later / Tanji Gilliam; 3. Head on straight, mask on crooked : MF DOOM and the trope of the mask / Nicholas James; 4. Superhero aesthetics in hip hop culture / Will Boone
- Part II. Visual Matter: 5. I have a meme : photography, interactive memory, and digital commemorations of the march on Washington / Paul M. Farber; 6. How deep? skin deep? : a case study on shameful national orientations / Emily Churilla; 7. Faggoty/white/uniform : gays in the military and A few good men / Scott St. Pierre
- Part III. Global Flows: 8. Selected poems / Suheir Hammad; 9. The communal womb in Haile Gerima's Sankofa / Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson; 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; 11. "A true and faithful account of Mr. Ota Benga The Pygmy, written by M. Berman, zookeeper" / Adam Mansbach
- Part IV. Culture of Personality: 12. Richard Pryor's pain : from stand-up comedy to Hollywood film / Sean Springer; 13. You are now tuned into the . . . greatest : Jay-Z and the spectacle of the cool / Wilfredo Gomez; 14. Disassembling the "matrix of domination" : Janelle Monae's transformative vision / Carrie Walker; 15. "Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address / Michael Eric Dyson.