From bourgeois to boojie
Subtitle: Black middle-class performances
By: edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young with Bridget Harris Tsemo
Series: African American life series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780814334683
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : performing citizenship / Vershawn Ashanti Young; title: Performing responsibility. Bourgeois fugue : notes on the life of the negro intellectual / Houston A. baker Jr.; title: Pockets of sanity / Venise Berry; title: Momma, Obama, and me : black leadership/black legitimacy / Dwight McBride; title: Selling Dr. King's dream : blackness and tourism in Atlanta / Sara F. Mason; title: The drug of white supremacy / Amiri Baraka; title: Performing womanhood. Black girls and representative citizenship / Nazera Sadiq Wright; title: Black bourgeois women's narratives in the post-Reagan, "postcivil rights," "postfeminist" era / Claire Oberon Garcia; title: Rosiland / Eileen Cherry-Chandler; title: Single black female / Lisa B. Thompson; title: Performing Media. Of afropunks and other anarchic signifiers of contrary negritude / Greg Tate; title: Hip-hop and capitalistic interests / Damion Waymer; title: Middle-class ideology in African American postwar comic strips / Angela M. Nelson; title: Put some skirts on the cards! black women's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley; title: Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos; title: Performing sexuality. The black church and the blues body / Kelly Brown Douglas; title: "A kind of end to blackness" : Reginald McKnight's He sleeps and the body politics of race and class / Candice M. Jenkins; title: Black ladies and black magic women / Lisa Thompson; title: "Boojie!": a question of authenticity / Bryant Keith Alexander; title: Afterword / by Mary Pattillo.