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Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
Author: Sherrow O. Pinder
language: en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date: 2021-08-01
In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity, Sherrow O. Pinder explores the ways in which the late singer's racial identification process problematizes conceptualizations of race and the presentation of blackness that reduces blacks to a bodily mark. Pinder is particularly interested in how Michael Jackson simultaneously performs his racial identity and posits it against strict binary racial definitions, neither black nor white. While Jackson's self-fashioning deconstructs and challenges the corporeal notions of "natural bodies" and fixed identities, negative readings of the King of Pop fuel epithets such as "weird" or "freak," subjecting him to a form of antagonism that denies the black body its self-determination. Thus, for Jackson, racial identification becomes a deeply ambivalent process, which leads to the fragmentation of his identity into plural identities. Pinder shows how Jackson as a racialized subject is discursively confined to a "third space," a liminal space of ambivalence.
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
Author: S. Torriano Berry
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2015-05-07
As early as 1909, African Americans were utilizing the new medium of cinema to catalogue the world around them, using the film camera as a device to capture their lives and their history. The daunting subject of race and ethnicity permeated life in America at the turn of the twentieth century and due to the effect of certain early films, specific television images, and an often-biased news media, it still plagues us today. As new technologies bring the power of the moving image to the masses, African Americans will shoot and edit on laptop computers and share their stories with a global audience via the World Wide Web. These independently produced visions will add to the diverse cache of African American images being displayed on an ever-expanding silver screen. This wide range of stories, topics, views, and genres will finally give the world a glimpse of African American life that has long been ignored and has yet to be seen. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1400 cross-referenced entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about African American cinema.
This Life of Mine
Author: Steven M. Wallach
language: en
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Release Date: 2025-01-08
This Life of Mine leaves no stone unturned. Every story will be told. From the beginning to the end, This Life of Mine will share fascinating details of the author's life, including his best of times, sadness, excitement, false promises, tragedy, love, and truths. The author has a true writer's gift. When you read This Life of Mine, you will feel as if Steve is sitting next to you, speaking in his own words. This book is the words of only the author. There were no ghostwriters at any time. That is what makes this book so unique. The author has also had the spiritual ability to speak directly with the deceased, and his sensational open-mindedness to express every visit in full detail is something that he has kept to himself for over sixty-nine years. So sit back. Get settled in with your favorite glass of wine. Oh, maybe a few tissues, too. Thank you. Ideas created by one's imagination.