Beyond Black : Celebrity and Race in Obama's America /

"Beyond Black is Ellis Cashmore's compelling appraisal of the impact of black celebrities on the cultural landscape of post-Obama America. In recent years a new variety of African American celebrity has emerged: acquisitive, ambitious, flamboyantly successful and individualistic - the kind...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cashmore, Ellis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Subjects:	Obama, Barack. Obama, Barack Post-racialism > United States. African American celebrities. Racism > United States > History. United States > Race relations. Société postraciale > États-Unis. Célébrités noires américaines. Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire. États-Unis > Relations raciales. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights. African American celebrities Post-racialism Race relations Racism United States Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
"I sell entertainment"
2 Sideshows and carnival barkers
3 Obama believes in Obama
4 If Oprah can make it, what does it say about me?
5 A black family that tv hadn't seen before
6 Please be black, Michael
7 A desire for buffoonery and song
8 Black models don't sell
9 Like a jungle sometimes
10 The ghetto inside
11 To be spoken for, rather than with
12 The death of blackness.