Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture / / ed. by Domino Renee Perez, Rachel González-Martin.

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Assembling an Intersectional Pop Cultura Analytical Lens
  • Introduction: Re-imagining Critical Approaches to Folklore and Popular Culture
  • Part I. Visualizing Race
  • 1. A Thousand “Lines of Flight”: Collective Individuation and Racial Identity in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Sense8
  • 2. Performing Cherokee Masculinity in The Doe Boy
  • 3. Truth, Justice, and the Mexican Way: Lucha Libre, Film, and Nationalism in Mexico
  • 4. Native American Irony: Survivance and the Subversion of Ethnography
  • Part II. Sounding Race
  • 5. (Re)imagining Indigenous Popular Culture
  • 6. My Tongue Is Divided into Two
  • 7. Performing Nation Diva Style in Lila Downs and Astrid Hadad’s La Tequilera
  • 8. (Dis)identifying with Shakira’s “Global Body”: A Path toward Rhythmic Affiliations beyond the Dichotomous Nation/Diaspora
  • 9. Voicing the Occult in Chicana/o Culture and Hybridity: Prayers and the Cholo-Goth Aesthetic
  • Part III. Racialization in Place
  • 10. Ugly Brown Bodies: Queering Desire in Machete
  • 11. “Bitch, how’d you make it this far?”: Strategic Enactments of White Femininity in The Walking Dead
  • 12. Bridge and Tunnel: Transcultural Border Crossings in The Bridge and Sicario
  • 13. Red Land, White Power, Blue Sky: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Breaking Bad
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index