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Black Mirror : The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism / Eric Lott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (292 p.) : 9 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674981478
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800973 23
LOC classification:
  • P94.5.A372 U559 2017eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Black Mirror: States Of Fantasy And Symbolic Surplus Value -- 2. Our Blackface America: Mr. Clemens And Jim Crow -- 3. The Mirror Has Two Faces: White Ethnic Semi-Mojo -- 4. House Of Mirrors: The Whiteness Of Film Noir -- 5. White Like Me: Racial Trans And The Culture Of Civil Rights -- 6. Tar Baby And The Great White Wonder: Joni Mitchell’S Pimp Game -- 7. All The King’S Men: Elvis Impersonators And White Working-Class Masculinity -- 8. Just Like Jack Frost’S Blues: Masking And Melancholia In Bob Dylan’S “Love And Theft” -- Coda -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Blackness is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, it invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while remaining “wholly” white. From sports to literature, film, and music to investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other racial mirroring.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Black Mirror: States Of Fantasy And Symbolic Surplus Value -- 2. Our Blackface America: Mr. Clemens And Jim Crow -- 3. The Mirror Has Two Faces: White Ethnic Semi-Mojo -- 4. House Of Mirrors: The Whiteness Of Film Noir -- 5. White Like Me: Racial Trans And The Culture Of Civil Rights -- 6. Tar Baby And The Great White Wonder: Joni Mitchell’S Pimp Game -- 7. All The King’S Men: Elvis Impersonators And White Working-Class Masculinity -- 8. Just Like Jack Frost’S Blues: Masking And Melancholia In Bob Dylan’S “Love And Theft” -- Coda -- Notes -- Index

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Blackness is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, it invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while remaining “wholly” white. From sports to literature, film, and music to investigative journalism, Eric Lott reveals the hidden dynamics of this self-and-other racial mirroring.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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