Black Identity and White Culture

This article investigates the trajectory of the Grêmio Dramático, Recreativo e Literário Elite da Liberdade (the Liberdade Elite Guild of Drama, Recreation, and Literature), a black club active in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1919 to 1927. The aim is to reconstruct aspects of the club’s history in light of its educational discourse on civility, which was used as a strategy to promote modern virtues in the black milieu. By appropriating the precepts of civility, Elite da Liberdade helped construct a positive black identity, enabled the creation of bonds of solidarity among its members, and made itself a place of resistance and struggle for social inclusion, recognition, and citizens’ rights.

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Black Families and Black Identity Development: Rediscovering the Distinction Between Self-esteem and Reference Group Orientation

Journal of Comparative Family Studies ◽

10.3138/jcfs.12.1.19 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 19-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

William E. Cross

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Reference Group ◽

Black Identity ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Black Families ◽

Group Orientation

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“What is Black Identity ?”

Cahiers Charles V ◽

10.3406/cchav.2006.1464 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 135-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michelle M. Wright

Keyword(s):

Black Identity

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Blackness as Riot Control: Managing Civic Unrest Through Black Appeal Programming and Black Celebrity

Television & New Media ◽

10.1177/1527476420985828 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152747642098582

Author(s):

Philip Scepanski

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Public Service ◽

Hip Hop ◽

Black Identity ◽

Martin Luther ◽

Cosby Show ◽

Riot Control

During the uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, black hip-hop artist Killer Mike appeared on television to ask that people remain nonviolent and in their homes. Similar events took place years earlier. James Brown performed a live concert on WGBH to keep Boston peaceful following Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968. During the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, both The Cosby Show and The Arsenio Hall Show were used to similar ends. These examples demonstrate the ways in which television has activated black identity to quell certain forms of civil rights protest and implicate televisual discourses of liveness, domesticity, and public service.

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