{"product_id":"blackness-is-burning-civil-rights-popular-culture-and-the-problem-of-recognition-paperback","title":"Blackness Is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTreaandrea M. Russworm\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlackness Is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the first books to examine the ways race and psychological rhetoric collided in the public and popular culture of the civil rights era. In analyzing a range of media forms, including Sidney Poitier's popular films, black mother and daughter family melodramas, Bill Cosby's comedy routine and cartoon \u003cem\u003eFat Albert, \u003c\/em\u003e pulpy black pimp narratives, and several aspects of post-civil rights black\/American culture, TreaAndrea M. Russworm identifies and problematizes the many ways in which psychoanalytic culture has functioned as a governing racial ideology that is built around a flawed understanding of trying to \"recognize\" the racial other as human.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The main argument of \u003cem\u003eBlackness Is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e is that humanizing, or trying to represent in narrative and popular culture that #BlackLivesMatter, has long been barely attainable and impossible to sustain cultural agenda. But \u003cem\u003eBlackness Is Burning \u003c\/em\u003emakes two additional interdisciplinary interventions: the book makes a historical and temporal intervention because Russworm is committed to showing the relationship between civil rights discourses on theories of recognition and how we continue to represent and talk about race today. The book also makes a formal intervention since the chapter-length case studies take seemingly banal popular forms seriously. She argues that the popular forms and disreputable works are integral parts of our shared cultural knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlackness Is Burning\u003c\/em\u003e's interdisciplinary reach is what makes it a vital component to nearly any scholar's library, particularly those with an interest in African American popular culture, film and media studies, or psychoanalytic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreaAndrea M. Russworm is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches interdisciplinary classes on literature, popular culture, and new media. She is a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFrom Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry \u003c\/i\u003eand her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGame On, Hollywood! \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWatching While Black\u003c\/i\u003e.\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 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757799964960,"sku":"9780814340516","price":62.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e94fc9cbc28b37c6e2dc5deb18d252d1.webp?v=1780112108","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/blackness-is-burning-civil-rights-popular-culture-and-the-problem-of-recognition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}