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Book

Outlaw culture : resisting representations

Call Number

  • 305.896 H784.2 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description

viii, 309 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

"Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best."--Publisher's website.

Notes

Originally published: 1994.

Contents

  • The heartbeat of cultural revolution
  • Power to the pussy : we don't wannabe dicks in drag
  • Altars of sacrifice : re-membering Basquiat
  • What's passion got to do with it? : an interview with Marie-France Alderman
  • Seduction and betrayal : The crying game meets The bodyguard
  • Censorship from left and right
  • Talking sex : beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary
  • Camille Paglia : "black" pagan or white colonizer?
  • Dissident heat : fire with fire
  • Katie Roiphe, a little feminist excess goes a long way
  • Seduced by violence no more
  • Gangsta culture : sexism and misogyny : who will take the rap?
  • Ice Cube culture : a shared passion for speaking truth
  • Spending culture : marketing the black underclass
  • Spike Lee doing Malcolm X : denying black pain
  • Seeing and making culture : representing the poor
  • Back to black : ending internalized racism
  • Malcolm X, the longed-for feminist manhood
  • Columbus : gone but not forgotten
  • Moving into and beyond feminism : just for the joy of it
  • Love as the practice of freedom.

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