Dark Designs And Visual Culture

by Wallace, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780822334279
• ISBN10: 0822334275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Michele Wallace has long been one of the most insightful and brave writers dealing with popular culture in this country. Her latest work continues that tradition of courage and wit."--Nelson George

Author Biography

Michele Wallace is Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(80)
PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: 1989 THROUGH 2001
Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity	81	(4)
Places I've Lived	85	(3)
Engaging and Escaping in 1994	88	(7)
To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the '60s and '70s	95	(16)
Censorship and Self-Censorship	111	(3)
An Interview	114	(13)
PART II. MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR JOURNALISM
Watching Arsenio	127	(3)
Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: ``I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies!''	130	(4)
When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap	134	(4)
Storytellers: The Thomas-Hill Affair	138	(3)
Talking about the Gulf	141	(3)
Beyond Assimilation	144	(3)
``Why Women Won't Relate to 'Justice''': Losing Her Voice	147	(2)
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can't Deal with Black Feminist Intellectuals	149	(12)
Miracle in East New York	161	(6)
PART III. NEW YORK POSTMODERNISM AND BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES
The Politics of Location: Cinema/Theory/Literature/Ethnicity/Sexuality/Me	167	(12)
Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved	179	(5)
Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture	184	(11)
High Mass	195	(2)
Symposium on Political Correctness	197	(5)
The Culture War within the Culture Wars	202	(13)
Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever	215	(8)
PART IV. MULTICULTURALISM IN THE ARTS
Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films	223	(15)
Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace	238	(11)
Multiculturalism and Oppositionality	249	(5)
Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine	254	(21)
The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis	275	(14)
PART V. HENRY LOUIS GATES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar	289	(8)
If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali	297	(12)
Let's Get Serious: Marching with the Million	309	(2)
Out of Step with the Million Man March	311	(3)
Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations	314	(4)
The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity	318	(6)
The Fame Game	324	(4)
Skip Gates's Africa	328	(11)
PART VI. QUEER THEORY AND VISUAL CULTURE
Defacing History	339	(14)
When Dream Girls Grow Old	353	(4)
The French Collection	357	(7)
Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture	364	(15)
A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs	379	(3)
``Harlem on My Mind''	382	(4)
Questions on Feminism	386	(4)
Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor	390	(11)
Doin' the Right Thing: Ten Years after She's Gotta Have It	401	(9)
The Gap Alternative	410	(7)
Art on My Mind	417	(5)
Pictures Can Lie	422	(4)
The Hottentot Venus	426	(4)
Angels in America, Paris Is Burning, and Queer Theory	430	(24)
Toshi Reagon's Birthday	454	(3)
Cheryl Dunye: Sexin' the Watermelon	457	(3)
The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now?	460	(14)
Black Female Spectatorship	474	(12)
Bamboozled: The Archive	486	(9)
Index	495