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Beyond Black Celebrity and Race in Obama's America. Cover Image

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Beyond Black Celebrity and Race in Obama's America

Summary: "Beyond Black is Ellis Cashmore's compelling appraisal of the impact of black celebrities on the cultural landscape of post-Obama America. In recent years a new variety of African American celebrity has emerged: acquisitive, ambitious, flamboyantly successful and individualistic - the kind of people who are interested in channelling their energies into their own careers rather than causes like racism. ... At the centre of this book lies the question, "do the conspicuously successful and glittering new class of African Americans herald a new post-racial age?" Cashmore's answer takes him to the minstrel shows of the nineteenth century, the Hollywood film industry of the 1930s and today's hip-hop culture. The most valuable product these celebrities sell, according to Cashmore, is a particular conception of America: as a nation where racism has been - if not banished - rendered insignificant. The lives they lead deliver the evidence. Does racism even matter when almost anyone can possess the commodities associated with the celebrities with whom they identify?"--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 1780931492 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781780931494 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1780931484
ISBN: 1780931506
ISBN: 9781780931500
ISBN: 1780931484 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781780931487 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)
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Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- "I sell entertainment" -- Sideshows and carnival barkers -- Obama believes in Obama -- If Oprah can make it, what does it say about me? -- A black family that tv hadn't seen before -- Please be black, Michael -- A desire for buffoonery and song -- Black models don't sell -- Like a jungle sometimes -- The ghetto inside -- To be spoken for, rather than with -- The death of blackness.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.