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One of the most startlingly original and provocatively radical scholars currently engaged in the study of culture and the concept of race.
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Synopsis:
Argues that many forms of African-American cultural expression display resistance through appropriation, and reconstitution, of denigrating representations fostered by the dominant racist culture. Beginning with "King Kong Lives: Racist Discourse and the Negro-Ape Metaphor", he goes on in subsequent chapters to discuss slavery, cultural identity, art, music, and film, engaging in a wide variety of issues pertaining to the politics of representation. Several chapters focus on social and political issues surrounding various conceptions of African-American culture, while others are devoted to more specific questions regarding the aesthetics and politics of various forms of African-American cultural expression. DuBois is a key figure here. His ideas, as traced in the title essay "DuBois on the Invention of Race", inform Lott's nonessentialist position in the chapter "A No-Theory Theory of Black Cinema". Alain Locke is another important voice for the author, as seen in his study "Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent John son" (the Harlem Renaissance artist).There is also coverage of resistance in rap music, both with an eye to black cultural norms proscribing minstrelsy ("Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice"), as well as to the social conditions of the so-called black underclass ("Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology").
About the Author:
Tommy Lott is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He is editor of Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (1998), co–editor with John Pittman of Blackwell′s forthcoming Companion to African–American Philosophy, and author of Like Rum in the Punch: Alain Locke and the Theory of African American Culture, also forthcoming, as well as numerous articles.
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0631210180
- ISBN 13 9780631210184
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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