{"product_id":"appropriating-blackness-performance-and-the-politics-of-authenticity-paperback","title":"Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. Patrick Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerformance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed--toward widely divergent ends--both within and outside African American culture. \u003ci\u003eAppropriating Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity--avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable. Drawing on performance theory, queer studies, literary analysis, film criticism, and ethnographic fieldwork, Johnson describes how diverse constituencies persistently try to prescribe the boundaries of \"authentic\" blackness and how performance highlights the futility of such enterprises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson looks at various sites of performed blackness, including Marlon Riggs's influential documentary \u003ci\u003eBlack Is . . . Black Ain't\u003c\/i\u003e and comedic routines by Eddie Murphy, David Alan Grier, and Damon Wayans. He analyzes nationalist writings by Amiri Baraka and Eldridge Cleaver, the vernacular of black gay culture, an oral history of his grandmother's experience as a domestic worker in the South, gospel music as performed by a white Australian choir, and pedagogy in a performance studies classroom. By exploring the divergent aims and effects of these performances--ranging from resisting racism, sexism, and homophobia to excluding sexual dissidents from the black community--Johnson deftly analyzes the multiple significations of blackness and their myriad political implications. His reflexive account considers his own complicity, as ethnographer and teacher, in authenticating narratives of blackness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppropriating Blackness\" is a wonderful study that makes important and timely contributions across many fields. E. Patrick Johnson is a skilled reader of texts and offers useful introductions to complex theories of race, sexuality, and culture.\"--David Roman, author of\" Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. Patrick Johnson is a performance artist and Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.08 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450077954226,"sku":"9780822331919","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3ef4e1f76392597eb42a9f85ad040998.webp?v=1778779693","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/appropriating-blackness-performance-and-the-politics-of-authenticity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}