African Americans and the Culture of Pain (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)

by Debra Walker King (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $30.52

  Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.