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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.
Mary E. Triece is professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron.Michael G. Lacy is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword A Moment of Blackness—And ZombiesEric King WattsIntroduction: Gramsci, Race, and Communication StudiesMary E. Triece and Michael G. LacyPart I: Race and Popular CultureHegemony and Disruption in Film, Television, and DocumentaryMary E. Triece1.Racial Shadows, Threat, Neoliberalism, and Trauma: Reading The Book of EliMichael G. Lacy2.Bizarre Foods: White Privilegeand the Neocolonial PalateCasey Ryan Kelly3.Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power MovementKristen HoerlPart II:Race and PoliticsChange vs. the “Dead Weight” of Tradition in PoliticsMary E. Triece4.The Mother Tongue as “Back Talk”: Resisting Racism in Congressional HearingsMary E. Triece5.At the Margins of the American Political Imagination: Black Feminist Politics and the Racial Politics of the New DemocratsBrittany Lewis6.The Birthers: Hegemony and the Politics ofPostracial Positionality Evan Beaumont CenterPart III:Race and Resistance“Pessimism of the Intelligence” and “Optimism of the Will”Mary E. Triece7.Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants:Counterhegemonic Protest and the RhetoricalPower of the “Material Diatribe”David W. Seitz8.Racing/Sexing the Rhetorical Situation:Angela Davis’s Embodied Contextual ReconstructionLinda Diane Horwitz and Catherine H. Palczewski9.The Black Public Intellectual of the Joshua Generation: Answering the Gramscian Call Anna M. YoungAbout the Contributors
