In Media Res
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In Media Res

Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century

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eBook - ePub

In Media Res

Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century

About this book

In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically engage a wide range of issues, including American imperialism, racial and gender discrimination, the globalization of culture, and the limitations of our new multimedia world. This diverse assortment of works by scholars, activists, and artists models the complex ways that we must engage university students, faculty, staff, and administration in a moment where so many of us are confounded by the "in medias res" nature of our interface with the world in the current moment. Featuring contributions from Imani Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Suheir Hammad, John Jennings, and Adam Mansbach, In Media Res is a primer for academic inquiry into popular culture; American studies; critical media literacy; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Africana studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask
  5. Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind
  6. Chapter 2: Consolidating a Hip Hop Nation
  7. Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked
  8. Chapter 4: Superhero Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture
  9. Part II: Visual Matter
  10. Chapter 5: I Have a Meme
  11. Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep?
  12. Chapter 7: Faggoty/White/Uniform
  13. Part II: Global Flows
  14. Chapter 8: Selected Poems
  15. Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa
  16. Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who Love Them
  17. Chapter 11: “A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy, written by M. Berman, Zookeeper”
  18. Part IV: Culture of Personality
  19. Chapter 12: Richard Pryor’s Pain
  20. Chapter 13: You Are Now Tuned Into the . . . Greatest
  21. Chapter 14: Disassembling the “Matrix of Domination”
  22. Chapter 15: “Dreams of the Drum”
  23. Bibliography
  24. About the Contributors