edited by Domino Renee Perez and Rachel González-Martin
contributions by Raisa Alvarado Uchima, Jaime Guzmán, Ruth Y Hsu, Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, Channette Romero, Gerald Vizenor, James Wilkey, José Anguiano, Marcel Brousseau, Olivia Cadaval, James H Cox, K. Angelique Dwyer, Nicole Guidotti-Hernández and Daniela Gutiérrez López
Rutgers University Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 | Paper: 978-1-9788-0130-1 | Cloth: 978-1-9788-0131-8
Library of Congress Classification P96.R3152U5575 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as film, television, and music. The essays collectively push past the reaffirmation of static conceptions of identity, authenticity, or conventional interpretations of stereotypes and bridge the intertextual gap between theories of community enactment and cultural representation. The book also draws together and melds otherwise isolated academic theories and methodologies in order to focus on race as an ideological reality and a process that continues to impact lives despite allegations that we live in a post-racial America. The collection is separated into three parts: Visualizing Race (Representational Media), Sounding Race (Soundscape), and Racialization in Place (Theory), each of which considers visual, audio, and geographic sites of racial representations respectively.