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

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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