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Black oak : odes celebrating powerful Black men / by Green, Harold,III,author.; Koby, Melissa,illustrator.;
"As he did for Black women in Black Roses, Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, now honors the Black men he most admires-groundbreakers including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John Legend-and celebrates their achievements which are transforming lives and making history"--
Subjects: Poetry.; African American men; African American men in popular culture;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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White Negroes : when cornrows were in vogue ... and other thoughts on cultural appropriation / by Jackson, Lauren Michele,1991-author.(CARDINAL)816301;
Includes bibliographical references.The pop star : swinging and singing -- The cover girl : blackness, groundbreaking -- The artist : a dead boy made art -- The hipster : the new white Negro -- The meme : Kermit the Frog meets Nina Simone -- The viral star : opposite from stardom -- The chef : America's whiteface mammy -- The entrepreneur : a bit free -- The activist : the time for anger."This book provides a cultural, political, and social survey through the most American of pastimes that continues to thrive today. With narrative, accessible criticism, research, and popular cultural touchstones we can all recognize, I'd like to introducereaders to the black presence that holds up daily life as they know it. It is a crucial account of the people, stories, and culture that create the hilarious, crazy wonder that is life in the 21st century. It is also a wake up call. White Negroes wants to peel open still beating heart of interracial antagonism in this country and expose a form of theft that feels natural only because we are used to it. But we don't have to be. This book documents how this very old tradition shapes our society in the present in the hopes that we can imagine something better. White Negroes will transform what readers think they know about race and culture in the new millennium and open the door to a new present and future unburdened by crimes of the past"--
Subjects: African Americans in popular culture.; Popular culture; Cultural appropriation;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Fierce angels : the strong black woman in American life and culture / by Parks, Sheri.(CARDINAL)499621;
MARCIVE 08/05/10Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. The Sacred Dark Feminine -- Ch. 2. She Made It Paradise -- Ch. 3. Pop Goddesses -- Ch. 4. "You Say 'Angry Black Woman' Like It's a Bad Thing" -- Ch. 5. Becoming Coretta: A Cautionary Tale -- Ch. 6. Fierce Angels."Fierce Angels explores and explodes the idea of the "strong black woman." Authoritative yet deeply personal and confessional, Sheri Parks's new study of the black female's role as communal savior and martyr will challenge and change anyone who reads it. It exposes the overwhelming emotional costs - as well as benefits - attached to this role." "Beginning with the oldest ongoing archetype, the Dark Feminine, Parks reveals the layered significance of the fertility of darkness - the abyss out of which the world was spoken into existence, the primordial creator in ancient Greek, Sumerian, and West African cultures, and the essence of Mother Earth herself. As these myths matured, they played critical parts in the assignment of maternal roles to women of African descent, the Dark Feminine acquiring a particularly acrid scent once she crossed the Atlantic Ocean in shackles, bound for a life of slavery." "Parks traces the development of the "strong black woman" throughout her life on Southern plantations and New York streets and in countless kitchens in between. From the Black Madonna celebrated by Italian Americans to the nurturing and selfless "Mammy" forced to nurse her master's child before her own, these abiding symbols of fortitude and dependability only solidified the mold into which the powerful dark woman was cast and paved a path that her descendants would have no choice but to follow." "Fierce Angels follows the inheritors of this legacy of power, compassion, and familial devotion into today's world, seeing her in Coretta Scott King, who relinquished her dreams for those of her husband, and in Angela Dawson, a mother in East Baltimore whose home was fire-bombed when she tried to save her community from drug dealers. Parks also shares important examples from entertainment, cogently reexamined and in some cases surprisingly reclaimed, from Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind to the no-nonsense Lieutenant Anita Van Buren played by S. Epatha Merkerson on Law & Order." "Bringing it all home, Parks recalls the personal costs she's paid for her own identity and captures those moments when she is expected to be all and know all, whether for her students at work or for strangers in the produce aisle in the supermarket. She investigates the support systems holding these stereotypes in place - latched onto by those both within and outside the traditional black community - and challenges readers, mothers, and daughters alike to examine how damaging and rewarding the assignment of this role can be and to take control of it within their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African American women in popular culture.; African American women.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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AfroCentric style : a celebration of Blackness & identity in pop culture / by Neal, Shirley,author.;
This celebration of the Black identity in popular culture features over 100 photographs and commentary about such topics and figures as Beyoncé, Black Panther, Black Lives Matter, Lil Nas, Kanye, Serena Williams and Meghan Markle.
Subjects: African Americans in popular culture.; African Americans; African Americans; Popular culture;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Fierce angels : living with a legacy from the sacred dark feminine to the strong black woman / by Parks, Sheri,author.(CARDINAL)499621;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: African American women in popular culture.; African American women.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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What the music said : Black popular music and Black public culture / by Neal, Mark Anthony.(CARDINAL)530537;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: African Americans in popular culture.; African Americans; Popular music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Tenderheaded : a memoir / by Davis, Michaela Angela.;
After working alongside iconic figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Maya Angelou and as VIBE's founding fashion director, Michaela angela Davis provides both a celebration of Black media's vibrant history and a critical examination of its challenges and identity politics. On her first day of second grade, a group of older girls surrounded Michaela. The ringleader drafted her little sister, armed her with a pair of scissors, and shouted a command: cut Michaela's big blond pigtails off or face her fury. Michaela and her braids survived the attempted "jump," but she never saw the world and hair the same way again. Recognizing how her light skin, light eyes, and light hair facilitated her access to the explosive intersections of hardcore, house, and hip-hop culture, Michaela angela Davis's Tenderheaded is the coming-of-age story of a stylist and editor who hustled during the golden age of the downtown NYC scene of the '80s, established a career through the hip-hop-fueled '90s, and reckoned with the media industry in the "post-racial" Obama years while being in service to Black women every step of the way. With a life and career as complex and textured as her hair, Davis has written more than a memoir. A tribute to Black girls and women everywhere, Tenderheaded is a cultural manifesto that reckons with the role media and American history play in the fascinating and chaotic shaping of a collective identity.
Subjects: Biographies.; Davis, Michaela Angela.; African American women in popular culture.; African American women; African American women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Souled American : how black music transformed white culture / by Phinney, Kevin.(CARDINAL)548683;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: African Americans in popular culture.; African Americans; Popular culture; Popular music;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Losing my cool : how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hiphop culture / by Williams, Thomas Chatterton,1981-(CARDINAL)499721;
The discovery of what it means to be a black boy -- A wicked genie -- What about your friends? -- Street dreams (who am I to disagree?) -- Slip the yoke -- You can't go home again -- Beginning to see the light -- To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish -- Every secret loses its force -- Epilogue.Describes how the author's hip-hop culture radically contrasted with his book-loving father's endless pursuit of knowledge, revealing how the father-son bond eventually overcame the genre's rebellious messages.
Subjects: African American youth; African Americans in popular culture.; African Americans; African Americans; Hip-hop; Popular culture;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Wannabe : reckonings with the pop culture that shapes me / by Harris, Aisha,author.(CARDINAL)874455;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280).Introduction: Thank you, Rebecca Bunch -- Isn't she lovely -- Blackety-Black -- I'm a cool girl -- Kenny G gets it -- Ebony & Ivory -- This is IP that never ends -- On the procreation expectation -- Parents just don't understand -- Santa Claus is a Black man."In nine lively essays, critc Aisha Harris invites us into the wonderful, maddening process of making sense of the pop culture we consume. Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back. In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the "Black Friend" trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls, teen comedies like Clueless, and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era, rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject, sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart, hilarious, pop culture-obsessed friend--and it's a delight"--Publisher.
Subjects: Essays.; Biographies.; Harris, Aisha.; Popular culture; African Americans in popular culture; Critics; African American critics;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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