Josephine Metcalf: 3 books
by Josephine Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"--and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s....
Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player
Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African...
African American Culture and Society After Rodney King
Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism'
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period...