TY - BOOK AU - Lott,Eric TI - Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism SN - 9780674981478 AV - P94.5.A372 U559 2017eb U1 - 305.800973 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Blacks KW - United States KW - Public opinion KW - Racism in mass media KW - Racism in popular culture KW - Whites KW - Attitudes KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674981478 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674981478 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674981478.jpg ER -