Double negative : the black image and popular culture /

Double negative : the black image and popular culture /

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Author / Creator:	Gates, Racquel J., 1980- author.
Imprint:	©2018 Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Description:	xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African Americans in mass media. African Americans in popular culture. African Americans and mass media. Race in mass media. African Americans -- Race identity. African Americans and mass media. African Americans in mass media. African Americans in popular culture. African Americans -- Race identity. Race in mass media.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12526865

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Varying Form of Title:	Black image and popular culture
ISBN:	9781478000419 1478000414 9781478000549 1478000546 9781478002239
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showing how some of the most disreputable representations of black people in popular media can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot. Rather than falling back on claims that negative portrayals hinder black progress, Gates demonstrates how reality shows such as Basketball Wives, comedians like Katt Williams, and movies like Coming to America play on 'negative' images to take up questions of assimilation and upward mobility, provide a respite from the demands of respectability, and explore subversive ideas. By using negativity as a framework to illustrate these texts' social and political work as they reverberate across black culture, Gates opens up new lines of inquiry for black cultural studies"--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Online version: Gates, Racquel J., 1980- Double negative. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478002239

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Call Number:	P94.5.A372 U554 2018
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