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White Negroes

By Jackson, Lauren Michele

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White Negroes

By Jackson, Lauren Michele

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Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people-and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success-and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation-something that's become embedded in our daily lives-deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it-from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer's infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2020-10-13
Publication Date:
2020-10-13
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0807002739
ISBN13:
9780807002735
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
299 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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