Blackness Is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition

by TreaAndrea M. Russworm

Blackness Is Burning is one of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier's popular films, black mother and daughter family melodramas, Bill Cosby's comedy routine and cartoon Fat Albert, pulpy black pimp narratives, and several aspects of post-civil rights black/American culture, TreaAndrea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814340512
• ISBN13: 9780814340516
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"