Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition
by
TreaAndrea M. Russworm
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Blackness Is Burning is one of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier’s popular films, black mother and daughter family melodramas, Bill Cosby’s...