Black Popular Culture and Social Justice : Beyond the Culture (Paperback)

Introduction: Cultural Power;  Section I: Black Television, Movies, and Social Justice;  1. Michaela Coel May Destroy You, But Also Help You Heal;  2. Two Percent: The Role of Popular Culture in Highlighting Social Justice Issues;  3. Lovecraft Country and the (Re)construction of Black Womanhood;  4. The Hate U Give: Police Brutality, Political Fantasies, and Black Popular Culture;  Section II:  Black Music and Social Justice;  5. Contributions of African American Anthems for Social Justice and Equity;  6. Cardi B: Raising Black Feminist Consciousness in Cyberspace;  7. “Out for Presidents to Represent Me”: Hip-Hop, The Breakfast Club, and the 2020 Presidential Elections;  8. The Bigger Picture:  Hip-Hop, Black Lives, and Social Justice;  9. The Wu Tang Clan, Politics, and Black Power;  10. Rappin’ Black in a White World: The Watts Prophets and Democratic Futurity;  Section III: Black Speculative Fiction, Comics, Protest Art, and Social Justice;  11. The Future is in Her Hands: Rewriting Black Girlhood Narratives and Experiences in Comics;  12. "Red, White, and Black":  Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Dismantling of White American Heroism;  13. Outfoxing the Foxes: Revising Mammy as Subversive Social Justice in Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow;  14. Writings on the Walls: A Study of Black Protest Street Art in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd;  Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Culture