Re-Imagining Black Women : : A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics /

Re-Imagining Black Women : : A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics / / Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd.

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WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTSA wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black womenFrom Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black...

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Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 6 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Table
  • Introduction: Melodrama, Liminality, and Post- Politics: Neoliberal Racial and Gender Formation in the New Millennium
  • 1. Splitting Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and Melodramas of “Closeness” in US National Community Formation
  • 2. Unpacking President Barack Obama’s “Improbable Story”: A Case Study of Gender, Race, Class, and Melodrama in Electoral Politics
  • 3. Diary of a Mad Black (Wo)Man: Tyler Perry, Wounded Masculinity, and Post- Feminist, Post- Racial Melodrama
  • 4. The Reality of the White Male Rapist: Black Women’s Rape, Melodrama, and US- Based American Political Development
  • 5. MeToo? Black Women, Melodrama, and Sexual Harassment
  • Conclusion: Turbulent Futures: Post- Politics as an Analytic
  • Coda: Post- Politics in the Era of COVID- 19
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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