Appropriating Blackness
Subtitle: performance and the politics of authenticity
By: E. Patrick Johnson.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity.; African Americans -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in popular culture.; Authenticity (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- United States.; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States.; Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.
Description: Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Blackness" and authenticity : what's performance got to do with it?; title: The pot is brewing : Marlon Riggs' Black is ... Black ain't; title: Manifest faggotry : queering masculinity in African American culture; title: Mother knows best : Blackness and transgressive domestic space; title: "Nevah had uh cross word" : mammy and the trope of Black womanhood; title: Sounds of Blackness down under : the Café of the Gate of  Salvation; title: Performance and/as pedagogy : performing Blackness in the classroom.