Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

by E. Patrick Johnson

Book Overview

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity-avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable. Drawing on performance theory, queer studies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331918
• ISBN13: 9780822331919
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"