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Scandalize My Name
2016,2020
Overview
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theoristsGÇömuch of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this work while approaching the study of black female representation as an opening onto a critical contemplation of the vagaries of black social life. It makes a case for a radical black subject-position that structures and is structured by an intramural social order that revels in the underside of the stereotype and ultimately destabilizes the very notion of GÇ£civil society.GÇ¥ At turns memoir, sociological inquiry, literary analysis, and cultural critique, Scandalize My Name explores topics as varied as serial murder, reality television, Christian evangelism, teenage pregnancy, and the work of Toni Morrison to advance black feminist practice as a mode through which black sociality is both theorized and made material.
Publisher
Fordham University Press,Temple University Press,American Literatures Initiative
Subject
/ African American women-Public opinion
/ African American women-Social conditions
/ Feminism
/ Humor
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
/ Music
/ Public opinion-United States
/ Racism
/ Sexism
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
/ Stereotypes (Social psychology)
/ Stereotypes (Social psychology)-United States
/ United States-Race relations
ISBN
9780823274727, 0823274721, 082327473X, 9780823274734
