Welcome to the jungle
Subtitle: new positions in Black cultural studies
By: Kobena Mercer.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780415906340; 9780415906357
Subjects: African American arts -- 20th century; African Americans -- Race identity; Arts, Black -- Great Britain -- 20th century; Arts, British -- 20th century; Blacks -- Race identity -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Black Britain and the cultural politics of diaspora; title: Monster metaphors: notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller; title: Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of Black independent film in Britain; title: Recoding narratives of race and nation; title: Black hair/style politics; title: Black masculinity and the sexual politics of race; title: Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe; title: Dark & lovely: Black gay image-making; title: Black art and the burden of representation; title: Welcome to the jungle: identity and diversity in postmodern politics; title: "1968": periodizing politics and identity.