From Bourgeois to Boojie : Black Middle-Class Performances.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Performing Citizenship -- PART I. PERFORMING RESPONSIBILITY -- 1 Bourgeois Fugue: Notes on the Life of the Negro Intellectual -- 2 Pockets of Sanity -- 3 Momma, Obama, and Me: Black Leadership/Black Legitimacy -- 4 Selling Dr. King's Dream: Blackness and Tourism in Atlanta -- 5 The Drug of White Supremacy -- PART II. PERFORMING WOMANHOOD -- 6 Black Girls and Representative Citizenship -- 7 Black Bourgeois Women's Narratives in the Post-Reagan, "Post-Civil Rights," "Postfeminist" Era -- 8 Rosalind -- 9 Scenes from Single Black Female -- PART III. PERFORMING MEDIA -- 10 Of Afropunks and Other Anarchic Signifiers of Contrary Negritude -- 11 Hip-hop and Capitalist Interests -- 12 Middle-Class Ideology in African American Postwar Comic Strips -- 13 Put Some Skirts on the Cards! Black Women's Visual Performances in the Art of Annie Lee -- 14 Melodrama of the Movement: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun -- PART IV. PERFORMING SEXUALITY -- 15 The Black Church and the Blues Body -- 16 "A Kind of End to Blackness": Reginald McKnight's He Sleeps and the Body Politics of Race and Class -- 17 Black Ladies and Black Magic Women -- 18 "Boojie!": A Question of Authenticity -- AFTERWORD -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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