Cinderella Story

A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av James Haywood Rolling Jr., James Haywood Rolling

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Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images. Rolling asks, How do words and images-involving stories and paradigms, past and future, perceptions of beauty and ugliness-become flesh? How are they done and undone? In this supple and complex narrative, the author peers deeply into his own life and attitudes, and into the racial images and ideas made explicit by American history as a whole, to sort out fact from fiction in new and ingenious ways.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-03-16
Mått162 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
Antal sidor228
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759111769

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Chapter 1 Prologue: An Old Story Chapter 2 Episode One: Borderlines Chapter 3 Episode Two: Homelessness Chapter 4 Episode Three: Origins Chapter 5 Episode Four: Breech Births and Cinderella Endings Chapter 6 Episode Five: Monsters Deconstructed Chapter 7 Episode Six: Figuring Myself Out Chapter 8 Episode Seven: Messing around with Identity Constructs Chapter 9 Episode Eight: Disruptions Chapter 10 Episode Nine: Secular Blasphemy Chapter 11 Episode Ten: Propaganda Chapter 12 Episode Eleven: Invisibility and In/di/visuality Chapter 13 Episode Twelve: The Meeting Chapter 14 Episode Thirteen: Self-Portrait, with Stern Resistance Chapter 15 Episode Fourteen: (Re)Appearances Chapter 16 Episode Fifteen: Self Portrait, with Backlighting Chapter 17 Episode Sixteen: The One-Drop Rule Chapter 18 Episode Seventeen: Self-Portrait, with Possibilities Chapter 19 Episode Eighteen: Epilogue, with New Story Values

In Cinderella Story, James Haywood Rolling, Jr. introduces us to an intricate collage of embodied experiences and aspirations, hopes and redemptions, afflictions and possibilities. Wow, what a fantastic visual read! With every turn of the page you will imagine Rolling sketching meaningful narratives of Black lives with broad strokes and fine lines, and we are left with an intellectually nuanced iteration of a textured imagination of Blackness that many of us will resonate with so deeply so as to consider it Truth. Perhaps what is most refreshing in this book is Rolling's self-reflection as a Black male. Privileging the reader with self-portraits drawn by the author, Rolling reminds us without cliché that each of our lives is a tremendously personalcanvas. Unlike most books on identity that theorize without location, Rolling invites us to see identities as real transformative spaces we inhabit daily. He helps us to remember that just like he and his family, we all not only come from a place with aphysical address like 1260 Lincoln Place, but we also continue to inhabit spaces and places that are designed to offer a profound sense of security, agency, self, position, and most of all home. In this book, Rolling unabashedly takes on issues of race a