Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest

by Michael G. Lacy (Editor), Mary E. Triece (Editor)

Overview

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611477597
Publisher:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Publication date:	03/27/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Mary E. Triece is professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron. Michael G. Lacy is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Foreword A Moment of Blackness—And Zombies Eric King Watts Introduction: Gramsci, Race, and Communication Studies Mary E. Triece and Michael G. Lacy Part I: Race and Popular Culture Hegemony and Disruption in Film, Television, and Documentary Mary E. Triece 1.Racial Shadows, Threat, Neoliberalism, and Trauma: Reading The Book of Eli Michael G. Lacy 2.Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the Neocolonial Palate Casey Ryan Kelly 3.Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power Movement Kristen Hoerl Part II:Race and Politics Change vs. the “Dead Weight” of Tradition in Politics Mary E. Triece 4.The Mother Tongue as “Back Talk”: Resisting Racism in Congressional Hearings Mary E. Triece 5.At the Margins of the American Political Imagination: Black Feminist Politics and the Racial Politics of the New Democrats Brittany Lewis 6.The Birthers: Hegemony and the Politics of Postracial Positionality Evan Beaumont Center Part III:Race and Resistance “Pessimism of the Intelligence” and “Optimism of the Will” Mary E. Triece 7.Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants: Counterhegemonic Protest and the Rhetorical Power of the “Material Diatribe” David W. Seitz 8.Racing/Sexing the Rhetorical Situation: Angela Davis’s Embodied Contextual Reconstruction Linda Diane Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski 9.The Black Public Intellectual of the Joshua Generation: Answering the Gramscian Call Anna M. Young About the Contributors