What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture?
In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 20, S. 104-114
Abstract
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
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