Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture

Author/Contributor(s):	Gates, Racquel J
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/10/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Racquel J. Gates examines the potential of so-called negative representations of African Americans in film and TV, from Coming to America to Basketball Wives and Empire, showing how such representations can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot.