Appropriating Blackness Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

Name: Appropriating Blackness Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
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ISBN: 9780822331919

ISBN-10: 0822331918

ISBN-13: 9780822331919

Edition: 2003

Authors: E. Patrick Johnson

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Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2010.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


"Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It?



The Pot is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is...Black Ain't



Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture



Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space



"Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood



Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation



Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom



Mary Rhyne's Narrative



Interview with Mrs. Smith


Notes


Bibliography


Index