Black Popular Culture

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, Black Popular Culture includes "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality" (Publishers Weekly). Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

A Note on the Series

VII

(2)

Editor's Note

IX

Black Pleasure, Black Joy: An Introduction

1

(20)

Gina Dent

What is this "Black" in Black Popular Culture?

21

(16)

Stuart Hall

I. Popular Culture: Theory and Criticism

37

(58)

Nihilism in Black America

37

(11)

Cornel West

Dialectically Down with the Critical Program

48

(8)

bell hooks

The Documentary Impulse in Contemporary U.S. African-American Film

56

(9)

Valerie Smith

The Politics of Interpretation: Black Critics, Filmmakers, Audiences

65

(10)

Jacqueline Bobo

The Black Man's Burden

75

(10)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Discussion

85

(10)

II. Gender, Sexuality, and Black Images in Popular Culture

95

(58)

The Accusatory Space

95

(4)

Jacquie Jones

Unleash the Queen

99

(7)

Marlon T. Riggs

The Body in Question

106

(6)

Lisa Kennedy

Getting Down to Get Over: Romare Bearden's Use of Pornography and the Problem of the Black Female Body in Afro-U.S. Art

112

(11)

Judith Wilson

Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever

123

(9)

Michele Wallace

"You Cain't Trus' It": Experts Witnessing in the Case of Rap

132

(7)

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Discussion

139

(14)

III. The Urban Context

153

(70)

Toward a Redefinition of the Urban: The Collision of Culture

153

(11)

John Jeffries

Two Words on Music: Black Community

164

(9)

Sherley Anne Williams

Nostalgia for the Present: Cultural Resistance in Detroit 1977-1987

173

(14)

Kofi Natambu

The Multicultural Wars

187

(13)

Hazel V. Carby

Popular Culture and the Economics of Alienation

200

(9)

Julianne Malveaux

Discussion

209

(14)

IV. The Production of Black Popular Culture

223

(56)

Black Texts/Black Contexts

223

(5)

Tricia Rose

Seizing the Moving Image: Reflections of a Black Independent Producer

228

(6)

Ada Gay Griffin

About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer

234

(9)

Thomas Allen Harris

Preface to a One-Hundred-and-Eighty Volume Patricide Note: Yet Another Few Thousand Words on the Death of Miles Davis and the Problem of the Black Male Genius

243

(6)

Greg Tate

69

249

(6)

Arthur Jafa

"Black Is, Black Ain't": Notes on De-Essentializing Black Identities

255

(9)

Isaac Julien

Discussion

264

(15)

V. Do the Right Thing: Postnationalism and Essentialism

279

(54)

Pan-American Postnationalism: Another World Order

279

(6)

Coco Fusco

Afro-Kitsch

285

(7)

Manthia Diawara

Race, Identity, and Political Culture

292

(11)

Manning Marable

It's a Family Affair

303

(14)

Paul Gilroy

Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties

317

(8)

Angela Y. Davis

Discussion

325

(8)

Afterword: "Why Are There No Great Black Artists?" The Problem of Visuality in African-American Culture

333

(14)

Michele Wallace

Bibliography of Related Sources

347

(20)

Notes on Contributors

367

(6)

Photo Credits

373

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Black Popular Culture

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