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Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States

Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
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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. The chapters in this volume call for renewed attention to Gramscian political thought to examine, understand, interpret and explain the persistent contradictions, ambivalence, and paradoxes in racial representations and material realities. This book's contributors rely on Gramsci's ideas to explore how popular, political, and resistant discourses reproduce or transform our understandings of race and racism, social inequalities, and power relationships in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together the chapters confront forms of collective and cultural amnesia about race and racism suggested in the phrases "postrace," "postracial," and "postracism," while exposing the historical, institutional, social, and political forces and constraints that make antiracism, atonement, and egalitarian change so difficult to achieve.
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
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