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9780814334683

From Bourgeois to Boojie

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814334683

  • ISBN10:

    0814334687

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-04-15
  • Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
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Summary

A cross-genre survey of how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class.

Author Biography

Vershawn Ashanti Young is a performance artist, actor, and associate professor of African American studies, English, and performance studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Wayne State University Press, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance. Bridget Harris is assistant professor of African American studies and rhetoric at the University of Iowa. She studies African American literary and rhetorical traditions and race as a class performance.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. xiii
Acknowledgments by the Editorsp. xxiii
Introduction: Performing Citizenshipp. 1
Performing Responsibility
Bourgeois Fugue: Notes on the Life of the Negro Intellectualp. 41
Pockets of Sanityp. 49
Momma, Obama, and Me: Black Leadership/Black Legitimacyp. 61
Selling Dr. King's Dream: Blackness and Tourism in Atlantap. 69
The Drug of White Supremacyp. 85
Performing Womanhood
Black Girls and Representative Citizenshipp. 91
Black Bourgeois Women's Narratives in the Post-Reagan ôPost-Civil Rights,ö ôPostfeministö Erap. 111
Rosalindp. 131
Scenes from Single Black Femalep. 143
Performing Media
Of Afropunks and Other Anarchic Signifiers of Contrary Negritudep. 155
Hip-hop and Capitalist Interestsp. 159
Middle-Class Ideology in African American Postwar Comic Stripsp. 175
Put Some Skirts on the Cards! Black Women's Visual Performances in the Art of Annie Leep. 191
Melodrama of the Movement: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sunp. 209
Performing Sexuality
The Black Church and the Blues Bodyp. 235
ôA Kind of End to Blacknessö: Reginald McKnight's He Sleeps and the Body Politics of Race and Classp. 261
Black Ladies and Black Magic Womenp. 287
ôBoojie!ö: A Question of Authenticityp. 309
Afterwordp. 331
Contributorsp. 339
Indexp. 347
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