Black Popular Culture and Social Justice Beyond the Culture

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Synopsis

This volume examines the use of Black popular culture to engage, reflect, and parse social justice, arguing that Black popular culture is more than merely entertainment. Moving beyond a focus on identifying and categorizing cultural forms, the authors examine Black popular culture to understand how it engages social justice, with attention to anti-Black racism.
Black Popular Culture and Social Justice takes a systematic look at the role of music, comic books, literature, film, television, and public art in shaping attitudes and fighting oppression. Examining the ways in which artists, scholars, and activists have engaged, discussed, promoted, or supported social justice – on issues of criminal justice reform, racism, sexism, LGBTQIA rights, voting rights, and human rights – the book offers unique insights into the use of Black popular culture as an agent for change.
This timely and insightful book will be of interest to students and scholars of race and media, popular culture, gender studies, sociology, political science, and social justice.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Transformations in Race and Media
Author:
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Jonathan I. Gayles
ISBN:
9781000840391
Related ISBNs:
9781032311074, 9781032306643, 9781003308089
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
234
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2023-02-21
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2023
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies