Am I Black Enough for You? Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond

Name: Am I Black Enough for You? Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780253211057

ISBN-10: 0253211050

ISBN-13: 9780253211057

Edition: 1997

Authors: Todd Edward Boyd

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The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or ghetto perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has informed a large segment of the popular marketplace from the incendiary nature of gangsta rap, through the choreographed violence of films like Menace II Society, to recurrent debates around the use of the word nigga, and even the assertion of this perspective in professional basketball. In each case, most of the discussion around these cultural circumstances tends to be dismissive, if not completely uninformed.In analyzing the ranges of images from the O. J. Simpson trial to Snoop Doggy Dogg, Am I Black Enough for You looks…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Aaron Baker teaches in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Arizona State University. He is currently working on a book about sports in American film and television.Todd Boyd, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinema-Television, has published in numerous journals, and is the author of Am I Black Enough for You? (in this catalog).



Preface


Acknowledgments


Dead Man Walkin': Tupac's Journey into the Heart of Darkness


Introduction: Representin' the Real



Real Niggaz Don't Die: Generational Shifts in Contemporary Black Popular Culture



Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular Culture



A Small Introduction to the "G" Funk Era: Gangsta Rap and Black Masculinity in Contemporary Los Angeles



Young, Black, and Don't Give a Fuck: Experiencing the Cinema of Nihilism



True to the Game: Basketball as the Embodiment of Blackness in Contemporary Popular Culture


Epilogue: Some New, Improved Shit


Notes


Works Cited


Index