Appropriating Blackness : performance and the politics of authenticity /

Appropriating Blackness : performance and the politics of authenticity / E. Patrick Johnson.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, E. Patrick, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
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.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Garfink Eff
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • "Blackness" and authenticity : what's performance got to do with it?
  • The pot is brewing : Marlon Riggs' Black is ... Black ain't
  • Manifest faggotry : queering masculinity in African American culture
  • Mother knows best : Blackness and transgressive domestic space
  • "Nevah had uh cross word" : mammy and the trope of Black womanhood
  • Sounds of Blackness down under : the Café of the Gate of Salvation
  • Performance and/as pedagogy : performing Blackness in the classroom.

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