Race, racism and Black popular culture -- Making the past accountable : The wind done gone and stereotypes of Black women -- Audience reception through the lens of a $10 million dollar lawsuit -- Unholy narratives and shameless acts : Kara Walker's side-long glance -- Racist visual images? : museum comment books and viewer response -- Troubling Blackness : The source magazine and the hip-hop nation -- The narrative disrupted : reading letters, rewriting identity -- Conclusion : reframing debates and analyses of controversial Black culture
Summary
Worsley analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images
Notes
"First published in America ... 1939. First published in England 1944
