The performative sustainability of race
Subtitle: reflections on black culture and the politics of identity
By: Bryant Keith Alexander
Series: Black studies and critical thinking, 1947-5985 -- v. 19
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433112843; 9781433112836; 9781453908242
Subjects: Critical pedagogy; Race identity; Blacks; African Americans; Race relations; Identity politics; African Americans in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Struggles against accusations of performative whiteness; title: Southern hospitality indeed!: a performative engagement with art depictions of African American culture in the rural South; title: Performing culture (race) in the white ivory tower; title: Madea is a real mutha! Madea's family reunion: a case study in the sustainability of racial representation; title: Racializing identity: pedagogy, dis/identification, and regret; title: The materiality of bodies: critical reflections on pedagogy, politics and positionality.