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Informationen zum Autor E. Patrick Johnson Klappentext ""Appropriating Blackness" is a wonderful study that makes important and timely contributions across many fields. E. Patrick Johnson is a skilled reader of texts and offers useful introductions to complex theories of race, sexuality, and culture."--David Roman, author of" Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS" Zusammenfassung Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity trope - avowed and disavowed! attractive and repellant! fixed and malleable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction "Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It? 1 1. The Pot is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is . . . Black Ain't 17 2. Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture 48 3. Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space 76 4. "Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood 104 5. Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation 160 6. Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom 219 Appendix A Mary Rhyne's Narrative 257 Appendix B Interview with Mrs. Smith 311 Notes 315 Bibliography 345 Index 361
