In media res : race, identity, and pop culture in the twenty-first century /

In media res : race, identity, and pop culture in the twenty-first century /

In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems and creative works that critically en...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peterson, James Braxton, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
Series:Griot Project book series.
Subjects:
Group identity.
Race relations.
Mass media and race relations.
Popular culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: into the midst of things / James Braxton Peterson
  • Head matter : the mind and the mask
  • An empire state of mind / Imani Perry
  • Consolidating a hip hop nation : revisiting the videotaped police beating of Rodney King, twenty years later / Tanji Gilliam
  • Head on straight, mask on crooked : MF doom and the trope of the mask / Nicholas James
  • The superhero aesthetics in hip hop culture / Will Boone
  • Visual matter
  • I have a meme : photography, interactive memory, and digital commemorations of the march on Washington / Paul M. Farber
  • How deep? skin deep? : a case study on shameful national orientations / Emily Churilla
  • Faggoty/white/uniform : gays in the military and a few good men / Scott St. Pierre
  • Global flows
  • Selected poems / Suheir Hammad
  • The communal womb in Haile Gerima's sankofa / Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson
  • South Asian hip hop wannabes and the chavs who love them : the blackening of British culture in Gautam Malkani's londonstani / Delores B. Phillips
  • "A true and faithful account of Mr. Ota Benga The Pygmy, written by M. Berman, zookeeper, a short story / Adam Mansbach
  • Culture of personality
  • Richard Pryor's pain : from stand-up comedy to Hollywood film / Sean Springer
  • You are now tuned into the . . . greatest : jay-z and the spectacle of the cool / Wilfredo Gomez
  • Disassembling the "matrix of domination" : Janelle Monae's transformative vision / Carrie Walker
  • "Dreams of the drum" : a keynote address / Michael Eric Dyson
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the contributors.