Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

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Contents
Introduction
I. PERFORMING BLACKNESS
	1. “Mutts Like Me”: Mixed-Race Jokes and Post-Racial Rejection in the Obama Era / Ralina L. Joseph
	2. Black Radio: Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and Janelle Monáe / Emily J. Lordi
	3. Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum / Vincent Stephens
	4. The Art of Black Popular Culture / H. Ike Okafor-Newsum
	5. Interview / Lisa B. Thompson
II. POLITICIZING BLACKNESS
	6. Refashioning Political Cartoons: Comics of Jackie Ormes 1938–1958 / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua
	7. Queer Kinship and Worldmaking in Black Queer Web Series: Drama Queenz and No Shade / Eric Darnell Pritchard
	8. Styling and Profiling: Ballers, Blackness, and the Sartorial Politics of the NBA / David J. Leonard
	9. Interview / Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
III. OWNING BLACKNESS
	10. The Subaltern Is Signifyin(g): Black Twitter as a Site of Resistance / Sheneese Thompson
	11. Authentic Black Cool?: Branding and Trademarks in Contemporary African American Culture / Richard Schur
	12. Black Culture without Black People: Hip-Hop Dance beyond Appropriation Discourse / Imani Kai Johnson
	13. At the Corner of Chaos and Divine: Black Ritual Theater, Performance, and Politics / Nina Angela Mercer
	14. Interview / Mark Anthony Neal
IV. LOVING BLACKNESS
	15. The Booty Don’t Lie: Pleasure, Agency, and Resistance in Black Popular Dance / Takiyah Nur Amin
	16. He Said Nothing: Sonic Space and the Production of Quietude in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight / Simone C. Drake
	17. Black Women Readers and the Uses of Urban Fiction / Kinohi Nishikawa
	18. Interview / Patricia Hill Collins
Contributors
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