Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

E. Patrick Johnson

384 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson’s provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed—toward widely divergent ends—both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the con...

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