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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Introduction: Melodrama, Liminality, and Post- Politics: Neoliberal Racial and Gender Formation in the New Millennium -- 1. Splitting Condi(licious): Condoleezza Rice and Melodramas of "Closeness" in US National Community Formation -- 2. Unpacking President Barack Obama's "Improbable Story": A Case Study of Gender, Race, Class, and Melodrama in Electoral Politics -- 3. Diary of a Mad Black (Wo)Man: Tyler Perry, Wounded Masculinity, and Post- Feminist, Post- Racial Melodrama -- 4. The Reality of the White Male Rapist: Black Women's Rape, Melodrama, and US- Based American Political Development -- 5. MeToo? Black Women, Melodrama, and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion: Turbulent Futures: Post- Politics as an Analytic -- Coda: Post- Politics in the Era of COVID- 19 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem—"patriarchy"—is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on a rich array of sources—from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to writings by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde and art by Kara Walker and Wangechi Mutu—Perry shows how the figure of the patriarch emerged as part and parcel of modernity, the nation-state, the Industrial Revolution, and globalization. She also outlines how digital media and technology, neoliberalism, and the security state continue to prop up patriarchy. By exploring the past and present of patriarchy in the world we have inherited and are building for the future, Perry exposes its mechanisms of domination as a necessary precursor to dismantling it

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Unreconciled Strivings -- TWO. Unhopeful but Not Hopeless -- THREE. Hearing the Breaks and Cuts of History -- FOUR. Reel Progress -- FIVE. Figures of the Postracial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Press for Inclusion. Nineteenth-Century Black Citizenship and the Anti-Chinese Movement -- 2. "When and Where I Enter . . .". Orientalism in Anna Julia Cooper's Narratives of Modern Black Womanhood -- 3. Blackness, Manhood, and the Aftermath of Internment in John Okada's No-No Boy (1957) -- 4. Becoming Korean American. Blackface and Gendered Racialization in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls (1987) -- Introduction -- 5. Black Surplus in the Pacific Century. Ownership and Dispossession in the Hood Film -- 6. Asian Americans in the Age of Neoliberalism. Human Capital and Bad Choices in a.k.a. Don Bonus (1995) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women's History -- 1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal Justice -- 2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century Urban Crime -- 3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals -- 4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female Criminals and Popular Culture -- 5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology -- Conclusion. ''She was Born in this Prison'': Black Female Crime, Past and Present -- Appendix -- Abbreviations and Notes on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The family both in Africa generally and in specific African countries remains underresearched. What is evident from this review of studies published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies for the selected period is that it is a rich resource for topics and themes that affect varied aspects of the family—some of which have not been previously closely considered. Immense possibilities for research in a number branches of science are open in Africa. The institution of the family in Africa is no exception. The review presented here provides an insight into how the family on the continent functions in divergent forms. It highlights how the family has been transforming under the influence of certain key variables, and the contradictions that exist among different ethnic groups on the continent. Additionally, the studies offer opportunities for scholars around the world to (re)examine some of the pertinent issues that would contribute to both theoretical and empirical knowledge about the family.