Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2017
Pages
272
ISBN
9781611477597

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume call for renewed attention to Gramscian political thought to examine, understand, interpret and explain the persistent contradictions, ambivalence, and paradoxes in racial representations and material realities. This book’s contributors rely on Gramsci’s ideas to explore how popular, political, and resistant discourses reproduce or transform our understandings of race and racism, social inequalities, and power relationships in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together the chapters confront forms of collective and cultural amnesia about race and racism suggested in the phrases postrace,
postracial, and postracism, while exposing the historical, institutional, social, and political forces and constraints that make antiracism, atonement, and egalitarian change so difficult to achieve.

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