Wallace Dark Designs and Visual Culture

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8635-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

A collection of writings from the ‘90s by the popular Black feminist scholar and journalist on film, art, and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I. The Autobiographical: 1989 through 2001

1. Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity 81

2. Places I've Lived 85

3. Engaging and Escaping in 1994 88

4. To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the '60s and '70s

5. Censorship and Self-Censorship 111

6. An Interview 114

Part II. Mass Culture and Popular Journalism

7. Watching Arsenio 127

8. Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: "I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies!" 130

9. When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap 134

10. Storytellers: The Thomas-Hill Affair 138

11. Talking about the Gulf 141

12. Beyond Assimilation 144

13. "Why Won't Women Relate to 'Justice'": Losing Her Voice 147

14. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can't Deal with Black Feminist Intellectuals 149

15. Miracle in East New York 161

Part III. New York Postmodernism and Black Cultural Studies

16. The Politics of Location: Cinema/Theory/Literature/Ethnicity/Sexuality/Me 167

17. Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved 179

18. Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in African American Culture 184

19. High Mass 195

20. Symposium on Intellectual Correctness 197

21. The Culture War within the Culture Wars 202

22. Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever 215

Part IV. Multiculturalism in the Arts

23. Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films 223

24. Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace 238

25. Multiculturalism and Oppositionality 249

26. Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine 264

27. The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular Culture, and Psychoanalysis 275

Part V. Henry Louis Gates and African American Poststructuralism

28. Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar 289

29. If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali 297

30. Let's Get Serious: Marching with the Million 309

31. Out of Step with the Million Man March 311

32. Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations 314

33. The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity 318

34. The Fame Game 324

35. Skip Gates's Africa 328

Part VI. Queer Theory and Visual Culture

36. Defacing History 339

37. When Dream Girls Grow Old 353

38. The French Collection 357

39. Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture 364

40. A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs 379

41. "Harlem on My Mind" 382

42. Questions on Feminism 386

43. Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor 390

44. Doin' the Right Thing: Ten Years after She's Gotta Have It 401

45. The Gap Alternative 410

46. Art on My Mind 417

47. Pictures Can Lie 422

48. The Hottentot Venus 426

49. Angels in America, Paris is Burning, and Queer Theory 430

50. Toshi Reagon's Birthday 454

51. Cheryl Dunye: Sexin' the Watermelon 457

52. The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why Now? 460

53. Black Female Spectatorship 474

54. Bamboozled: The Archive 486

Index 495

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Wallace is Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory and Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. She has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications, including The Village Voice, The New York Times, Emerge, Aperture, Ms., October, and Renaissance Noire.