An edition of From bourgeois to boojie (2011)

From bourgeois to boojie

Black middle-class performances

From bourgeois to boojie
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From bourgeois to boojie

Black middle-class performances

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From bourgeois to boojie: Black middle-class performances
2011, Wayne State University Press
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From bourgeois to boojie: Black middle-class performances
2011, Wayne State University Press
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From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
Apr 15, 2011, Wayne State University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : performing citizenship / Vershawn Ashanti Young
Performing responsibility. Bourgeois fugue : notes on the life of the negro intellectual / Houston A. baker Jr.
Pockets of sanity / Venise Berry
Momma, Obama, and me : black leadership/black legitimacy / Dwight McBride
Selling Dr. King's dream : blackness and tourism in Atlanta / Sara F. Mason
The drug of white supremacy / Amiri Baraka
Performing womanhood. Black girls and representative citizenship / Nazera Sadiq Wright
Black bourgeois women's narratives in the post-Reagan, "postcivil rights," "postfeminist" era / Claire Oberon Garcia
Rosiland / Eileen Cherry-Chandler
Single black female / Lisa B. Thompson
Performing Media. Of afropunks and other anarchic signifiers of contrary negritude / Greg Tate
Hip-hop and capitalistic interests / Damion Waymer
Middle-class ideology in African American postwar comic strips / Angela M. Nelson
Put some skirts on the cards! black women's visual performances in the art of Annie Lee / Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Melodrama of the movement : Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Harilaos Stecopoulos
Performing sexuality. The black church and the blues body / Kelly Brown Douglas
"A kind of end to blackness" : Reginald McKnight's He sleeps and the body politics of race and class / Candice M. Jenkins
Black ladies and black magic women / Lisa Thompson
"Boojie!": a question of authenticity / Bryant Keith Alexander
Afterword / by Mary Pattillo.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Detroit
Series
African American life series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.5/508996073
Library of Congress
E185.625 .F76 2011, E185.625.F76 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
366

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24412233M
ISBN 13
9780814334683
LCCN
2010033585
OCLC/WorldCat
657270834

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15444681W

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