PostNegritude visual and literary culture
By: Mark A. Reid.
Series: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Blacks and mass media
Description: In the 1960s and 1970s, the civil rights movement and other national and cultural movements fractured dominant paradigms of American identity and demanded a reformulation of American values and norms. This book borrows the moral, ethical, and political purposes of these movements to show how film, literature, photography, and television news broadcasts construct essentialist myths about race, gender, sexuality, and nation.

It also examines how some visual and literary works and public reactions challenge these essentialist myths by exploring racial, sexual, and national anxieties.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-140) and index.