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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. (Nikol Gertrude). Re-imagining Black women. New York : New York University Press, [2021] (DLC) 2020038690 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nikol G Alexander-Floyd |
ISBN: | 9781479824380 1479824380 147982013X 9781479820139 |
OCLC Number: | 1204268033 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction: melodrama, liminality, and "post"-politics: neo-liberal racial and gender formation in the new millennium -- Splitting Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and melodramas of "closeness" in U.S. national community formation -- Unpacking President Barack Obama's "improbable story": a case study of gender, race, class, and melodrama in electoral politics -- Diary of a mad Black(wo)man: Tyler Perry, wounded masculinity, and post-feminist, postracial melodrama -- The reality of the white male rapist: Black women's rape, melodrama, and U.S.-based American political development -- MeToo? Black women, melodrama, and sexual harassment -- Conclusion: turbulent futures: post-politics as an analytic -- Coda: post-politics in the era of COVID-19. |
Responsibility: | Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd. |
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Alexander-Floyd has written a provocative, hard-hitting analysis of Black political matters, ranging from Condolezza Rice, to Barack Obama to Bill Cosby to R. Kelly. Bold and controversial, Re-Imagining Black Women is a must-read for scholars attempting to navigate the complex political and cultural terrain of U.S. history over the past two decades. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities An insightful and necessary intervention into post-politics: its origins, its intersections, and its fictive construction by the state and popular media. -- Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions Read more...

