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The debate on the essence of black popular culture hinges on a specific moment in postmodern cultural globalization, where the struggle is fought over cultural strategies. The new ambiguous window opened to difference & marginality is met with reactionary & aggressive resistance in an attempt to restore the hegemony of the Western narrative. Black popular culture encompasses internally contradictory elements in the black community, which preserves black traditions, maintains the black aesthetic, & houses alternative black counternarratives. In the profoundly mythical & complexly constructed arena of popular culture, strategic essentialism in the use of the qualifier black unlocks both critical/creative options & produces shortcomings (eg, exclusion, the naturalization & dehistoricization of difference). 6 References. J. Sadler

Suggests that the repertoires of black popular culture, which, since black people were excluded from the cultural mainstream, were often the only performative spaces left, were overdetermined from 2 directions: from their inheritances; and by diasporic conditions in which the connections were forged.

Uses two dimensions of black feminist standpoint epistemology to investigate black political economy. It is suggested that centering on black women's experiences & analyzing those experiences via intersectional paradigms fosters rethinking the significance of family within gender, sexuality, race, class, & nation. Also addressed is how these new views of family might inform gendered analyses of black political economy. 13 References. Adapted from the source document.

The continuing failure of the Labour Party to nominate black can didates for Parliament has led to the demand by some of its black members for special 'Black Sections' to represent black interests. The suggestion has been denounced as `repellent' by the Labour leadership, and as 'divisive of the class' by a section of the Left. On the eve of the Labour Party Conference, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism asked A. Sivanandan for a race/class perspective on the subject. The in terview which follows was taken from Searchlight, October 1985.

An examination of an independent national survey did not find black people to be less concerned about the quality of the environment than Whites; their concern was found to be almost identical. Yet rates of environmental participation were found to be significantly lower for Blacks, even after controlling for SES and other variables. (Abstract amended)

To test theoretical explanations of racial differences in environmental political action, positing that blacks are less concerned than whites about environmental quality issues, data drawn from a 1980 US Dept of Agriculture field survey, involving face-to-face interviews with 559 blacks & 6,035 whites, were analyzed. Results revealed that degree of environmental concern among blacks vs whites was virtually identical. However, rates of participation in environmental activism were significantly lower for blacks, even after controlling for socioeconomic & other variables. Reasons why black concern has not translated into political action are examined. 4 Tables, 1 Figure, 44 References. Adapted from the source document.