Double Negative: The Black Image And Popular Culture

Racquel J. Gates examines the potential of so-called negative representations of African Americans in film and TV, from Coming to America to Basketball Wives and Empire, showing how such representations can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot.

• | Author: Racquel J. Gates
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1478000414
• | ISBN-13: 9781478000419