Black Popular Culture and Social Justice

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultural Power
SECTION 1 Black Television, Movies, and Social Justice
	1 Michaela Coel May Destroy You, But Also Help You Heal
	2 Two Percent: The Role of Popular Culture in Highlighting Social Justice Issues
	3 Lovecraft Country and the (Re)construction of Black Womanhood
	4 The Hate U Give: Police Brutality, Political Fantasies, and Black Popular Culture
SECTION 2 Black Music and Social Justice
	5 Contributions of African American Anthems for Social Justice and Equity
	6 Cardi B.: Raising Black Feminist Consciousness in Cyberspace
	7 “Out for Presidents to Represent Me”: Hip-Hop, The Breakfast Club, and the 2020 Presidential Elections
	8 The Bigger Picture: Hip-Hop, Black Lives, and Social Justice
	9 The Wu-Tang Clan, Politics, and Black Power
	10 Rappin’ Black in a White World: The Watts Prophets and Democratic Futurity
SECTION 3 Black Speculative Fiction, Comics, Protest Art, and Social Justice
	11 The Future Is in Her Hands: Rewriting Black Girlhood Narratives and Experiences in Comics
	12 “Red, White, and Black”: Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Dismantling of White American Heroism
	13 Outfoxing the Foxes: Revising Mammy as Subversive Social Justice in Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow
	14 Writings on the Walls: A Study of Black Protest Street Art in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd
Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Culture
Index