Lauren Michele Jackson

White Negroes (eBook, ePUB)

When Cornrows Were in Vogue . and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people-and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success-and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation-something that's become embedded in our daily lives-deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it-from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer's infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807011980
• Artikelnr.: 56948422

Autorenporträt

Lauren Michele Jackson teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her writing about race and culture has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Essence, the New Republic, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine, among many other places. She lives in Chicago. Connect with her at laurjackson.com and on Twitter (@proseb4bros).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Appropriation and American Mythmaking
PART I: SOUND AND BODY
CHAPTER 1
The Pop Star: Swinging and Singing
CHAPTER 2
The Cover Girl: Blackness, Groundbreaking
PART II: ART AND LANGUAGE
CHAPTER 3
The Artist: A Dead Boy Made Art
CHAPTER 4
The Hipster: The New White Negro
PART III: TECHNOLOGY
CHAPTER 5
The Meme: Kermit the Frog Meets Nina Simone
CHAPTER 6
The Viral Star: Opposite from Stardom
PART IV: ECONOMY AND POLITICS
CHAPTER 7
The Chef: America’s Whiteface Mammy
CHAPTER 8
The Entrepreneur: A Bit Free
CHAPTER 9
The Activist: The Time for Anger
CONCLUSION
Business as Usual
Acknowledgments
Notes