Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh Contributor(s): Jenkins, Candice M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 151790580X ISBN-13: 9781517905804 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 810.989 |
LCCN: 2018055521 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives Focusing on works by Toni Morrison, Spike Lee, Danzy Senna, Rebecca Walker, Reginald McKnight, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead, and Michael Thomas, Jenkins shows that the seemingly abrupt discursive shift from post-Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, from an emphasis on privilege and progress to an emphasis on vulnerability and precariousness, suggests a pendulum swing between two interrelated positions still in tension. By analyzing how these narratives stage the fraught interaction between the black and the bourgeois, Jenkins offers renewed attention to class as a framework for the study of black life--a necessary shift in an age of rapidly increasing income inequality and societal stratification. Black Bourgeois thus challenges the assumed link between blackness and poverty that has become so ingrained in the United States, reminding us that privileged subjects, too, are "classed." This book offers, finally, a rigorous and nuanced grasp of how African Americans live within complex, intersecting identities. |