Welcome to the Jungle by Kobena Mercer

Welcome to the Jungle by Kobena Mercer

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This text brings a Black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race during the 1980s. It examines cultural expression in Black film, photography and visual art.

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Welcome to the Jungle by Kobena Mercer

This text brings a Black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race during the 1980s. It examines cultural expression in Black film, photography and visual art.
"A passionate and detailed history of the New Black British Cultural Studies by one of the major players in its makingIn its attention to "the formal and strategic aesthetics of hybridity," and to the differences and alliances between Black US and Black British, this book is indeed "intranational and outernational." -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Kobena Mercer is Assistant Professor in the Art History and History of Consciousness programs at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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ISBN 13 9780415906357
ISBN 10 0415906350
Title Welcome to the Jungle
Author Kobena Mercer
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1994-07-29
Number of pages 348
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.