Post-soul futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit techno

2017 ◽  
pp. 445-466
Author(s):  
Sean Albiez
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Politics

Introducing the First Black Bachelorette: Race, Diversity, and Courting Without Commitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Brandeise Monk-Payton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Black Female ◽  
African American Female ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility

AbstractSince its premiere in 2002, The Bachelor (ABC) and its spinoffs have entertained television audiences with their depiction of individuals vying for love. However, the franchise has been critiqued for the lack of racial diversity in its contestant pool. This article examines the racialized and gendered logics of representation that frame the casting of the first black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay. This article discusses the industrial conditions of possibility at the ABC network that led to Lindsay’s casting in 2017, which center on the cultivation of diversity in primetime programming. Yet the courting of a black female lead is done without a commitment to the specificities of targeting a black woman to be at the forefront of the competition to find love. This article details the construction of the African American female lead’s romantic journey and audience response at the intersections of race, gender, and the cultural politics of desire.

Improvising the Future in Post-Katrina New Orleans

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Porter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African American ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
The Future

This chapter examines how New Orleanians in the post-Katrina era have drawn upon African American–rooted parade traditions, especially the practice of second lining, to respond to what some have called the biopolitical order in New Orleans, particularly those aspects of it related to state and criminal violence. Some parades have been organized by long-established social aid and pleasure clubs and other traditional African American networks; some are the product of emergent cultural and political formations. Such acts may be viewed as improvised responses to a biopolitical order that is itself both scripted and improvisational. Although the cultural politics of such acts are often contradictory, this essay contends that they often open up important political space for collaboration and reflection on key social justice issues that are defining New Orleans in the post-Katrina era.

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