Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

by E.PatrickJohnson (Author)

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  2004

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  Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity trope - avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellant, fixed and malleable.