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Contributors include:
- Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- Jacqueline Bobo
- Hazel V. Carby
- Angela Y. Davis
- Manthia Diawara
- Coco Fusco
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Paul Gilroy
- Ada Gay Griffin
- Stuart Hall
- Thomas Allen Harris
- bell hooks
- Arthur Jafa
- John Jeffries
- Jacquie Jones
- Isaac Julien
- Lisa Kennedy
- Julianne Malveaux
- Manning Marable
- Kofi Natambu
- Marlon T. Riggs
- Tricia Rose
- Valerie Smith
- Greg Tate
- Michele Wallace
- Cornel West
- Sherley Anne Williams
- Judith Wilson
"A stellar cast reflecting upon the definitions and diversities of black popular culture, the differences within the black community, and between the Americas and Britain; also upon the problems of a *stellar* cast reflecting upon *popular* culture. The range is impressive and the discussions are real debates, between generations, genders, and political styles."
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of In Other Worlds : Essays in Cultural Politics
"These essays come, smoking, straight out of a unique sense of inquiry--today's best black minds talking about the future of everyday culture."
-- Andrew Ross, author of The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life
Black Popular Culture
Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8
a project by Michele Wallace
paperback
$18.95
A Village Voice Best Book of the Year
"This amalgam of enraged opinion, more than any other book I know, captures the spirit of black intellectual debate today. For those new to the debate, this collection introduces the major voices of African-American social commentary; for those enmeshed in it already, this comprehensive anthology is an invaluable prism of contestation, testament, theory, critique, and cultural consensus."
-- Patricia J. Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights
A collection of essays on Black Popular Culture.
Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
Michele Wallace is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center. She is author of Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman and Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory.
African American Studies
Fall 1998
paperback
6 x 8 1/2, 384 pages
978-1-56584-459-9
Fall 1998
paperback
6 x 8 1/2, 384 pages
978-1-56584-459-9
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