The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by rese
Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to
This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and
"This book argues that, since transatlantic slavery, patience has been used as a tool of anti-black violence and political exclusion, but shows how during the C
Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recog