Art in the age of 'New Jim Crow' : delimiting the scope of racial justice and black film production since Rodney King
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237198900
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- African American culture and society after Rodney King : provocations and protests, progression and 'post-racialism'
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 9781472455390
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter take a novel position in situating the questions raised about the purpose of film for African Americans in the context of what has been termed ‘New Jim Crow.’ It draws on the public spat between black film directors Mike Lee and Tyler Perry which surfaced concerns around complicity in white stereotypes, class, and purpose in black cinema. The research draws rigorously on recent US Census, Bureau of Justice, and Vera Institute of Justice data that highlights the ongoing reality of racial profiling and police brutality in the USA. The empirical evidence provided an original frame for analysing the complexity of the problems confronting African American filmmakers in the age of the Black Lives Matter movement. The insight of the work is that we need to make a significant call for a vernacular view of human rights if we are to better understand the relationship between race and the politics of representation. The chapter is based in part on a keynote paper for the University of Hull international conference, The African American Experience Since 1992, at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. The conference was also the basis for the volume in which the chapter appears, the work led to an invitation to join a German Research Council (DFG) funded international conference on Black America and the Police at the University of Bamberg in 2016, which in turn fostered new research for a further text published as a book chapter in The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film, edited by Jim Leach and Jeanette Sloniowski. (Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2017. p. 121-138): Hollywood and the Black Stickup: Race and the Meaning of the heist on the Big White Screen.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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