Re-imagining Black women : a critique of post-feminist and post-racial melodrama in culture and politics / Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd.

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"This book dissects "post-politics"--the repertoire of fantasies that hope for an afterlife beyond the social activism of the mid-Twentieth Century. Fusing political science, women's studies, media studies, and psychoanalysis, it provides a tour-de-force of Black politics, tackling gender and other...

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Main Author: Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude) (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Women, Black > Political activity.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Political activity.
Physical Description:ix, 293 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: melodrama, liminality, and "post"-politics: neo-liberal racial and gender formation in the new millennium
  • Splitting Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and melodramas of "closeness" in U.S. national community formation
  • Unpacking President Barack Obama's "improbable story": a case study of gender, race, class, and melodrama in electoral politics
  • Diary of a mad Black(wo)man: Tyler Perry, wounded masculinity, and post-feminist, postracial melodrama
  • The reality of the white male rapist: Black women's rape, melodrama, and U.S.-based American political development
  • MeToo? Black women, melodrama, and sexual harassment
  • Conclusion: turbulent futures: post-politics as an analytic
  • Coda: post-politics in the era of COVID-19.