Black cultural traffic crossroads in global performance and popular culture (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
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Introduction - traveling while Black - Kennell Jackson -- - When is African theater "Black"? - Catherine M. Cole -- - Performing Blackness down under : gospel music in Australia - E. Patrick Johnson -- - Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) - Danzy Senna -- - The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? - Kennell Jackson -- - Optic Black : naturalizing the refusal to fit - W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- - Diaspora aesthetics and visual culture - Kobena Mercer -- - Keepin' it real : disidentification and its discontents - Tim'm T. West -- - Faking the funk? : Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and (hybrid) Black celebrity - Caroline A. Streeter -- - Interlude : Black artists on issues of culture and performance -- - Black community, Black spectacle : performance and race in transatlantic perspective - Tyler Stovall -- - The 1960s in Bamako : Malick Sidibé and James Brown - Manthia Diawara -- - Global hip-hop and the African diaspora - Halifu Osumare -- - Continental riffs : praisesingers in transnational contexts - Paulla A. Ebron -- - Where have all the Black shows gone? - Herman Gray -- - Hip-hop fashion, masculine anxiety, and the discourse of Americana - Nicole R. Fleetwood -- - Spike Lee's Bamboozled - Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- - Moving violations : performing globalization and feminism in Set it off - Jennifer Devere Brody -- - Change clothes and go : a postscript to postblackness - Harry J. Elam, Jr
Includes bibliographical references and index