Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural StudiesPsychology Press, 1994 - 339 pages Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora. |
Contents
Notes on Michael Jacksons | 33 |
Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation | 69 |
Black HairStyle Politics | 97 |
The Photographs of 14 | 171 |
Black Gay ImageMaking | 221 |
Black Art and the Burden of Representation | 233 |
Identity and Diversity in | 259 |
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