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An exploration of race relations in American popular culture, focusing particularly on blackface--strange, often scandalous, and now taboo entertainment. Although blackface performance came to be denounced as purely racist mockery, and shamefacedly erased from most modern accounts of American cultural history, Strausbaugh shows that, nevertheless, its impact has been deep and longlasting. Strausbaugh illuminates truths about race rarely discussed in public, including: --American culture conforms neither to knee-jerk racism nor to political correctness. It is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix. --No history is best forgotten--however uncomfortable it may be to remember. The power of blackface to enrage and mortify Americans to this day is reason enough to examine what it still tells us about our culture and ourselves. --Blackface is still alive. Its impact and derivations--including Black performers in "whiteface"--can be seen all around us.--From publisher description

Introduction: popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture -- Race-ing fantasy: the Sports illustrated swimsuit issue in South Africa -- "It's sort of like National geographic meets Sports illustrated" -- Fashioning identities: Kente, nostalgia, and the world of Barbie -- It's a small, white world -- Africa in Florida: Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge -- Refrain: Africa in the American imagination.

Cover -- Volume 1: American History and Violent Popular Culture -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: American Popular Culture-There Will Be Blood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction: Recovering American Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter One: The Vanishing Trace of Violence in Native American Literature and Film -- Ritualism -- Minimalism -- Ironism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two: The Politics of Pain: Representing the Violence of Slavery in American Popular Culture -- The Strange Career of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The Eroticization of Interracial Violence -- Reconceptualizing the Violence of Slavery in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Conclusion: Representing the Violence of Slavery in the "Post-Racial" Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three: Natural Laws, Unnatural Violence, and the Psychophysical Experience of the Civil War Generation in America -- Violence in Antebellum America -- Simply Murder: Unfathomable Killing and the Civil War -- Psychophysical Coping with a Bloody Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four: World War II in American Popular Culture, 1945-Present -- Early Postwar, 1945-1948 -- Cold War, 1948-1962 -- The Vietnam War Era, 1962-1978 -- Post Vietnam, 1978-2001 -- Post-9/11 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Five: American Dreams and Nightmares: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement -- American Dreams -- American Nightmares -- A Change Is Gonna Come -- Marching Forward: Fifty Years Later -- Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Six: Exploring Popular Cultural Narratives of Gender Violence -- Domestic Violence -- Rape -- Sexual Harassment -- Hate Crimes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seven: Vigilant Citizens and Horrific Heroes: Perpetuating the Positive Portrayal of Vigilantes -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. 0If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century."

Introduction : Thirteen Ways of Reading African Popular Culture / Grace A Musila -- Ethiopian Imprints : Reading and Writing Ethiopia in 1930s South Africa / Corinne Sandwith -- Local Authors, Ephemeral Texts: Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Early West African Newspapers / Stephanie Newell -- Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature / Susanne Gerhman -- Against 'African Popular Literature' / Ranka Primorac -- Gendering the Popular : FEMRITE and African Popular Culture / Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Erik Falk / Scandals, Controversies and African Literary Prizes : Between Intertextuality and Plagiarism / Doseline Kiguru -- Talkin' TED, Blogging and Celebrity : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Popular Imagination / Steve Almquist -- Flash Fiction Ghana and Popular Culture : An Overview / Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Methods of Speculation in African Popular Culture / Nedine Moonsamy -- Literature in Africa's Great Lakes region : Between Resistance and Resilience / Maeline le Lay -- Funding Popular Culture in Tanzania : Crowdfunding, Self-Funding and the Live Performance as Fundraiser / Nikitta Dede Adjirakor -- Nigerian film audiences on the Internet : Influences, Preferences and Contentions / Añulika Agina -- 'Don't tell me you want to marry a white man!' : The Encounter with Euro-American Characters and Settings in African Commercial Cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Popular Culture and the Women Fandom of English Premier League Football in Eldoret, Kenya / Solomon Waliaula -- Modelling Success : Women and Self-Making in Kenyan Digital Spaces / Dina Ligaga -- Recognising LGBTQ Faces beyond the Mauritian Nation-State / Ryan Poinsamy -- Coding the City : Mapping Eco-Systems and Zones of Opportunity in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene / Katrien Pype -- Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito Matters / Rangoato Hlasane and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Meaning and Multiplicity : Complexity and Play in Tanzanian Hip-Hop / David Kerr -- Music Video, Popular Culture and the Question of the Political / Femi Eromosele -- The Police is Your Friend : Instagram Comedy and the Defamiliarization of the Postcolonial State / James Yeku -- "Di wone wey dey pain me pass...!" : Social Satire, Caricature and Mimicry in the Comic Act of AY / Rotimi Fasan -- #ObinimStickerChallenge : Visual Mediations of Suspicion in Religious Prosumer Parody Media in Contemporary Ghana / Joseph Oduro-Frimpong.