The Black public sphere : a public culture book /

The Black public sphere : a public culture book / [print] edited by the Black Public Sphere Collective. - Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, (c)1995. - 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Critical memory and the Black public sphere Photo essays: Hope reclaimed : South African elections, May 1994. Refuge refused : Haitians, borders, and democracy -- Negotiating and transforming the public sphere : African American political life in the transition from slavery to freedom Race, identity and political activism : the shifting contours of the African American public sphere Black Cinderella? : race and the public sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard -- Photo essay: Black global public spheres -- A Black counterpublic? : economic earthquakes, racial agenda(s), and Black politics X marks the spot : the ambiguities of African trading in the commerce of the Black public sphere Culture versus commerce : the marketing of Black popular music Check yo self, before you wreck yo self : variations on a political theme in rap music and popular culture University presses and the Black reader Afterword : mapping the Black public sphere Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Malcolm X and the Black public sphere : conversionists versus culturalists Manthia Diawara -- "After the love has gone" : bio-politics and etho-poetics in the Black public sphere Paul Gilroy -- "Can you be BLACK and look at this?" : reading the Rodney King video(s) / Elizabeth Alexander -- Elsa Barkley Brown -- Steven Gregory -- Michael C. Dawson -- "A nation of thieves" : consumption, commerce, and the Black public sphere Regina Austin -- Rosemary J. Coombe and Paul Stoller -- Reebe Garofalo -- Todd Boyd -- Elizabeth Maguire -- Thomas C. Holt.



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African Americans--Social conditions--1975-
Popular culture--United States.
African Americans--Politics and government.

E185.B627.B533 1995