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

by TreaAndrea M. Russworm

Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.

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...

• 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"