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Beyond Black : celebrity and race in Obama's America / Ellis Cashmore.

Title
Beyond Black : celebrity and race in Obama's America / Ellis Cashmore.
Author
Cashmore, Ellis.
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

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v, 169 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
An appraisal of the impact of a new type of black celebrities--acquisitive, ambitious, successful, and individualistic--on the cultural landscape of contemporary America.
Subject
  • Obama, Barack
  • Post-racialism > United States
  • African American celebrities
  • Racism > United States > History
  • African Americans in mass media
  • Celebrities in mass media
  • United States > Race relations
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-157) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : "I sell entertainment" -- Sideshows and carnival barkers -- Obama believes in Obama -- If Oprah can make it, what does it say about me? -- A black family that tv hadn't seen before -- Please be black, Michael -- A desire for buffoonery and song -- Black models don't sell -- Like a jungle sometimes -- The ghetto inside -- To be spoken for, rather than with -- The death of blackness.
ISBN
  • 1780931492
  • 9781780931494
OCLC
809977812
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library