{"product_id":"africa-in-the-american-imagination-popular-culture-racialized-identities-and-african-visual-culture-paperback","title":"Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Magee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. \u003ci\u003eAfrica in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In exploring the multiple meanings that \"Africa\" has in American popular culture, \u003ci\u003eAfrica in the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War, civil rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid and post-apartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA study of popular culture's representation of the African continent's visual traditions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Magee\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of art history at the University of North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753371205920,"sku":"9781617039478","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1bc8adc8776faa248f19eec719218dd3.webp?v=1780018546","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/africa-in-the-american-imagination-popular-culture-racialized-identities-and-african-visual-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}