Democracy remixed
By: Cathy J. Cohen
Series: Transgressing boundaries; Transgressing boundaries
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780195378009; 9780199703227
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Race relations; African American youth; Political activity
Other titles: Black youth and the future of American politics; Remixing democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "My petition" : black youth and the promise of democratic citizenship; title: "Gangsta rap made me do it" : Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and black moral panics; title: "Baby mama" : black love, black deviance, and the sexual politics of morality; title: "Minority report" : Kanye West, Barack Obama, and political alienation / with Jamila Celestine Michener; title: "Fight the power" : from Jena to the White House; title: "My president is black" : Barack Obama and the postracial illusion; title: Epilogue : "A change is gonna come" : policy and politics.