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Race and hegemonic struggle in the United States : pop culture, politics, and protest / edited by Michael G. Lacy and Mary E. Triece.

Other author/creatorLacey, Michael G., 1961-
Other author/creatorTriece, Mary Eleanor, 1967-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoMadison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxiv, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Series The Fairleigh Dickinson University press series in communication studies
Contents Foreword: A moment of Blackness, and zombies / Eric King Watts -- Introduction: Gramsci, race, and communication studies / Mary E. Triece and Michael G. Lacy -- Part I. Race and popular culture -- Hegemony and disruption in film, television, and documentary / Mary E. Triece -- Racial shadows, threat, neoliberalism, and trauma : reading The book of Eli / Michael G. Lacy -- Bizarre foods : white privilege and the neocolonial palate / Casey Ryan Kelly -- Remembering radical Black dissent : traumatic counter-memories in contemporary documentaries about the Black power movement / Kristen Hoerl -- Part II. Race and politics -- Change vs. the "dead weight" of tradition in politics / Mary E. Triece -- The mother tongue as "back talk" : resisting racism in Congressional hearings / Mary E. Triece -- At the margins of the American political imagination : Black feminist politics and the racial politics of the new Democrats / Brittany Lewis -- The birthers : hegemony and the politics of postracial positionality / Evan Beaumont Center -- Part III. Race and resistance -- "Pessimism of the intelligence" and "optimism of the will" / Mary E. Triece -- Embodying unauthorized immigrants : counterhegemonic protest and the rhetorical power of the "material diatribe" / David W. Seitz -- Racing/sexing the rhetorical situation : Angela Davis's embodied contextual reconstruction / Linda Diane Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski -- The Black public intellectual of the Joshua generation : answering the Gramscian call / Anna M. Young -- About the contributors.
Scope and content "Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States : Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014025733
ISBN9781611477092 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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