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Author Stevens, Maurice

Title Troubling Beginnings : Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface Troubled Beginnings; Introduction HereNow and ThereThen: The Ambivilant Politics of Identity; Liberating Theologies: Ibn Al-cArabi's Bezels and James Cone's Christ; Flesh and Facts: Toward a Critical Psychoanalysis; Freeing Films: Reading Sankofa, Malcolm X, and Panther; The Power to Trans(per)form; Conclusion Trans(per)forming Pedagogy: or Teaching Agency; Bibliography; Index
Summary This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media, and is a provocative re-reading of the historiography of black culture
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Subject African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- History -- Philosophy
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African American arts.
Performing arts -- United States.
African American arts
African Americans -- Intellectual life
African Americans -- Philosophy
African Americans -- Race identity
Performing arts
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203501986
0203501985