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White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

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White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television. White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media examines the ways in which prominent figures such as Issa Rae, Spike Lee, Justin Simien, Jordan Peele, and Donald Glover centralize complex Black protagonists in their work while also training a Black gaze on would-be White allies. Emily R. Rutter highlights how these Black creators represent both performative White allyship and the potential for true White antiracist allyship, while also examining the reasons why Black creators utilize the white ally trope in the wider context of the film and television industries. During an era in which concerns with White liberal complicity in anti-Black racism are of paramount importance, Rutter explores how these films and televisions shows, and their creators, contribute to the wider project of dismantling internal, interpersonal, ideological, and institutional White hegemony. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Film and Media Studies, Television Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, and Popular Culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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100081307X

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9781000813074

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

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Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

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Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), Black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, Black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, author Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history by William Brashler, Jerome Charyn, August Wilson, Gloria Naylor, Harmony Holiday, Kevin King, Kadir Nelson, and Denzel Washington, among others. Reading representations across the literary color line, Rutter opens a propitious space for exploring Black cultural pride and residual frustrations with racial hypocrisies on the one hand and the benefits and limitations of white empathy on the other. Exploring these topics is necessary to the project of enriching the archives of segregated baseball in particular and African American cultural history more generally.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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149681715X

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Invisible Ball of Dreams

Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

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1496817133

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Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

By: Emily Ruth Rutter

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Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

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Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.

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Rutgers University Press

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1644532468

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White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

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Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

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Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

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White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Invisible Ball of Dreams

Black Celebrity

Black Celebrity

White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

Black Celebrity

Black Celebrity

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