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[ecrea] new book: Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest.

Fri Nov 14 13:24:39 GMT 2014



New Book:

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rowman & Littlefield Group).
Edited by Michael G. Lacy (Queens College, CUNY) and Mary E. Triece (University of Akron)

How do we interpret and explain the paradox of racial trauma and amnesia in popular commercial productions and documentaries in this “postracial” age? How do ordinary citizens resist dominant stereotypes and confront mainstream politicians while transforming their material realities and lives? How do historically marginalized people use their bodies, intellect, and status or positions to challenge persistent racial and social inequalities and injustices? How might translated and revived critical theories of culture explain such rhetoric?

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States is a collection of essays drawing on concepts developed by Italian political critic Antonio Gramsci (and translated and reworked by Stuart Hall during the 1980s and 1990s) to examine the deployment and imagining of race in popular culture in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The chapters in this volume call for renewed attention to Gramscian political thought to examine, understand, and explain the persistent contradictions, ambivalence, and paradoxes in representations and material realities. The book’s contributors rely on Gramsci’s ideas to explore how popular Hollywood films, documentaries, reality TV shows, politics, and resistance (e.g., black power and liberation) discourses reproduce or transform our understandings of race and racism, racial formations, social inequalities, and power relationships. Together, the chapters confront forms of collective trauma and cultural amnesia suggested in the fantastic claims of a “postracial” reality, while exposing the historical, institutional, social, and political forces and constraints that make antiracism, atonement, and egalitarian change so difficult to achieve.

Contents

Forward: Eric King Watts, “A Moment of Blackness – and Zombies”

1. Michael G. Lacy, “Racial Shadows, Threat, Neoliberalism, and Trauma: Reading ‘The Book of Eli” 2. Casey Ryan Kelley, “Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the Neocolonial Palate” 3. Kristen Hoerl, “Remembering Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power Movement” 4. Mary E. Triece, “The Mother Tongue as ‘back talk’: Resisting Racism in Congressional Hearings” 5. Brittany Lewis, “At the Margins of a Political Imagination: Black Feminist Politics and the Racial Politics of the New Democrats” 6. Evan Beaumont Center, “The Birthers: Hegemony and Postracial Positionality” 7. David W. Seitz, “Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants: Counterhegemonic Protest and the Rhetorical Power of the ‘Material Diatribe’” 8. Linda Diana Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski, “Racing/Sexing the Rhetorical Situation: Angela Davis’ Embodied Contextual Reconstruction” 9. Anna M. Young, “The Black Public Intellectual of the Joshua Generation: Answering the Call”

Michael G. Lacy is assistant professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Mary E. Triece is professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron.




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