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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson
(Hardcover, 2001)
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Author: Robin
A cultural critic charts America's long line of racially charged symbols, stereotypes, and narrative...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0691058008
ISBN-13: 9780691058009
Apr 2001
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
401 pages
Illustrated
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A cultural critic charts America's long line of racially charged symbols, stereotypes, and narratives--from high and low culture and from current events such as the O. J. Simpson trial and the Rodney King incident--and shows their accumulated power and their persistence as an overwhelmng master narrative.
| Size | | Length: | 401 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"While Williams is not beyond resorting to the unlovely lingo of ''hybridity,'' it is nevertheless one of the virtues of PLAYING THE RACE CARD that she mainly dispenses with the cant and silliness that tangles much academic talk about racial matters. Williams is an empiricist at heart. Steeped in the details of text and context, she invites the reader to see familiar works in fresh ways. [A] book of creative and careful analysis...."
New York Times Book Review - Jonathan Rieder (09/16/2001)
"With its thought-provoking analysis and textbook scholarship, 'PLAYING THE RACE CARD is still a passionately crafted book. But Williams's greatest contribution may be liberating a discussion of race from the incendiary rhetoric and polemics that accompany such a discourse.<BR> She creates a new dialogue about how popular entertainment has fostered racial sympathy as well as mistrust, and how those images still shape us today."
Boston Globe - Rene Graham (06/04/2001)
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