Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics)
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internalized racism 202–13
Interview 29
IRA 70
“Irony of a Negro Policeman” (Basquiat) 30
Islam 155, 186, 218–19
“Jack Johnson” (Basquiat) 31
Jackson, George 206
Jackson, Janet 45
Jagged Edge (film) 57
jazz 35–6
Jeffersons, The (sitcom) 197
Jewison, Norman 182
Jordan, Michael 210
Jordan, Neil 49, 64, 67
Ju Dou (film) 58
Jungle Fever (film) 61, 184
Juno, Andrea 49
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (film) 52
Kamen, Paula 123
Kaplan, Caren 108
Kaufman, Gershen 267
Keen, Sam 247
Keller, Evelyn Fox 269
Kennedy, Duncan 137, 141–2
King, Katie 108
King, Martin Luther Jr.: and “beloved community” 278, 298; decision to love 290, 294; on materialism 283; portrayal of 75, 160, 207; radicalization 207; on responsibility for planet 297–8; sexism 219–20
King, Rodney 191
Laing, R.D. 55
Lancaster, Burt 58
Lawrence, Jacob 2, 3
Lee, Spike: and images of blackness 175, 183–4, 281, 282; as insider 182; and interracial sex 61, 149, 184–5; and Malcolm X 180–92; and rape culture 129; on skin color 209
liberal individualism 199, 206
Like Water for Chocolate (film) 59
Lindo, Delroy 185
Lipton, Eunice 256
literacy programs 201
Little, Ella 187
Little, Louise 223
Little, Malcolm see Malcolm X
Livingston, Jennie 246
Lollapalooza tour 149
Lorde, Audre 113, 122, 125–6
love: better 57; of blackness 211; ethic of 288–9, 293; falling in 259; as foundation for politics 294; as practice of freedom 295; redemptive 59, 229; of self 148, 163, 202, 206, 207, 213
“Love and Need” (Merton) 293
Love, Love, Love (Bernhard) 56
“Lovers, The” (Lawrence) 2
Maasai art 32
McEvilley, Thomas 29–30, 33–4, 38, 40
MacKinnon, Catharine 87, 93, 110, 123
McLaren, Peter 4
Macy, Joanna 292, 296
Mad Dog and Glory (film) 142
“Madison Avenue Primitive” (Gopnik) 28, 35
madness and women 54–5
Madonna: and black culture 260; as feminist icon 9, 12; and homoeroticism 15–16; as icon 5, 11; as phallocentric 25; as plantation overseer 18; recreation as antifeminist 11–13, 56; Sex 13–26; as voyeur 16–17
Mailer, Norman 140
Malcolm (Perry) 215
Malcolm X: and color caste 204; family of 186, 204, 221–7; and gender 214–30; as icon 189, 190, 214, 221; image 148, 180, 188–9; and King 291; Lee film 149, 181–92; marketing of 180; Perry biography 75, 215–30; on struggle 8, 206; on warmth 152
Malcolm X (film) 181–92
“Malcolm X as a Husband and Father” (Shabazz) 221
Mama, There’s a Man in Your Bed (film) 61–3
“mammy” role 69, 71
“Man-Child at Large” (Tate) 164
Mandela, Nelson 188
Mani, Lata 108
Maori 139–40
Marable, Manning 128–9, 180
Marshall, Thurgood 160
Martin (sitcom) 209
Martin and Malcolm (Cone) 219
Marx for Beginners 276
masculinity 130
mass media: black professional class in 174–5; feminist stereotypes in 87–95, 99–100, 104–5; gangsta rap in 134–9; Gulf War in 280; and internalized racism 208–9; people of color in 281–2; the poor in 196–9
“Material Girl” (Bordo) 14
“Material Girl” (Madonna) 13
“Material Girl’s Sexual (R)Evolution, The” (Orth) 12
materialism 169–79, 283
Memmi, Albert 196, 202
memory as empowerment 240
men able to change 95
Menace II Society (film) 50, 51–2, 137, 175–6, 197
menopause 262
Merton, Thomas 293
Miller, Alice 267
Minh-ha, Trinh T. 2, 257
Minimalism 276
Misogynies (Smith) 139
Mo’ Better Blues (film) 282
money 146–7, 179, 194, 285–6
Monroe, Marilyn 15, 21, 23
Morison, Samuel Eliot 238
Morning After, The (Roiphe) 109, 112, 120–6
Morrison, Toni 82, 126, 172, 251
Mother Jones 125
Ms. magazine 111
Murphy, Eddie 129
Muslims 155
Napier, A. David 37, 40, 41–2
Nation of Islam 155, 213, 217–19, 222, 226
Native Americans 233–8, 281, 286
“Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari” (Basquiat) 31
Nazism 22
negotiation 19, 90, 92, 153
“new feminism” 86, 88–9, 103, 109–17
New York Times 80, 136, 227
New Yorker 28, 190
New Zealand, colonization of 139–40
Newsweek 15, 177
Nobel Prize 82, 126, 284
“Nobody Loves a Genius Child” (Tate) 37
Nolte, Nick 57
nuclear family 263, 268
Oberlin, Ohio 270
“Obnoxious Liberals” (Basquiat) 33
“On Malcolm X” (Marable) 180
On Our Backs 14
One False Move (film) 142, 210
Orth, Maureen 12
Other 258, 278–9, 287
Paglia, Camille 87, 91, 96–105, 123
pain 42, 240, 273
Palac, Lisa 94
parenthood 148–9, 165–7
Paris is Burning (film) 246, 260
Parton, Dolly 97
passion 44, 60
Passion Fish (film) 58
Passionate Life, The (Keen) 247–8
Peck, M. Scott 265, 273, 293
Penizzi, Francesco 37
performance 246, 275–6
Perry, Bruce 75, 190, 215–16, 219, 223–4, 227
Philadelphia Temple 219
Piano, The (film) 139–41
Pinkie (film) 63
Plath, Sylvia 55
“play daughter” 249
Playboy 14
Players 14
Plum Village 263
Poetic Justice (film) 45
Policing Desire (Watney) 277
“Politics of Gangster Rap, The” (Staples) 136
poor, the 193–202
pornography 14, 15, 16, 75
postmodernism 49, 247
poverty 193–201
Powell, Colin 160
power 68, 111
“power feminism” 111, 112, 113
Predator (Ice Cube) 145, 146, 162
Pretty Woman (film) 197
Prince of Tides (film) 57
privacy 32, 79, 179, 264–5, 270
Privilege (film) 262
professional class as speakers for black culture 175–9
progressive erotica 14, 15
Prophetic Thought in Modern Times (West) 193
pseudonyms 107
“Quality Meats for the Public” (Basquiat) 30
Question of Color, A (documentary film) 211–12
quilts 285–6
racism: and beauty 202–3; effect on racist 261; in Europe 10; internalized 202–13, 225; as projection of whites 253; relation to sexism 7, 21–2; as struggle between men 188; as wounding 255
Raft Is Not the Shore, The (Hanh) 278
rage 248–9, 251, 273
Rainer, Yvonne 262
Rainmaker (film) 58
Raise the Red Lantern (film) 59
Rajneesh town, Oregon 264
rap: and censorship 74, 150; cultural
/political background 134–44; demonized in mass media 134–5; language 276; myth of gangster 51; and rape 129, 136; white male audience 136, 150
rape: colonization 237–8; date rape 109, 121; rap and 129, 136; rape culture 128–33; responses to 109, 251; statistics 55
Rea, Stephen 66, 68, 69
recognition of the Other 287
Reconstructing Memory (Hord) 172
red color 2
Red Hot Chili Peppers 149, 150
Red Sorghum (film) 58, 59
Reflections on Gender and Science (Keller) 269
religion 268–9, 294–5
Reservoir Dogs (film) 142
revolution 8, 86, 156–7, 188–9, 213
“Revolutionary Renegades” (hooks) 235
Ricard, René 38
Rich, Adrienne 110, 226
“Riding with Death” (Basquiat) 41
Riggs, Marlon 40, 182
Road Less Traveled, The (Peck) 265, 293
Roberts, Julia 197
Roiphe, Katie 87, 99, 102, 109–10, 112, 118–27
Rorty, Richard 278
Rose, Charlie 111
RuPaul 97
Rustin, Bayard 180, 191
Sandler, Kathe 211–12
Sarandon, Susan 53, 54
Sayles, John 58
School Daze (film) 209
Seduction (Baudrillard) 271
seduction and betrayal 279, 283
self-defense 152
self-hate 147, 161, 207–8, 291
Serreau, Coline 61
service, value of 296–7
Sex (Madonna) 13–26
sex-radical practice 19
sexism: and black family 228; and black liberation struggle 291; as cultural norm 135–6; feminist commitment to end 127; relation to racism 7, 21–2
Sexton, Anne 55
sexual activity 85–6, 130–3
sexual harassment 121
sexual imaginary, the 95
sexual liberation 85–6
Sexual Personae (Paglia) 96, 101
sexuality: and feminism 85–95; as liberatory 91, 251; and power 60; and rape 133
Sexy Dressing Etc. (Kennedy) 137
Shabazz, Betty 187, 221–5, 227
Shakespeare, William 104
shame 198, 266–7
Shame: The Power of Caring (Kaufman) 267
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle 45
Silko, Leslie 241
Singleton, John 154
Sister Act (film) 62
Sister Ray (hooks) 244–5
skin color 202–13
slavery 66, 152, 203, 241
Sleepless in Seattle (film) 58
S/M 18–20, 251
Smith, Joan 139, 141
Smith, Luther 296
Snoop Doggy Dogg 138
socialism 173
solidarity as suppression 77, 119
South Africa 51, 240
Spellbound (film) 267
Spielberg, Steven 183
Spin magazine 137
spirit, needs of 289, 294
“Spirituality out on the Deep” (Smith) 296
Stack, Carol 199
Stanford University 194
Staples, Brent 136, 142
Steele, Shelby 157
Storr, Robert 28
storytelling 246
Streisand, Barbra 57
“style” 154
subject-to-subject encounter 287
suffering, redemptive 273
Supreme Court 77
Suzanne Suzanne (film) 53
Tao of Physics, The (Capra) 269
Tate, Greg 37, 164
technology 268–9
telephone 271
television 147–8, 159, 197, 266
Tentler, Kate 9
“Testament of Hope, A” (King) 283
“Their Malcolm, My Problem” (Early) 191
Thelma and Louise (film) 53–4, 59
theorizing through autobiography 246–7
They Came Before Columbus (Van Sertima) 233
Thomas, Clarence 77, 78, 128, 160
Thompson, Robert Farris 33–4
Thurman, Howard 296, 297
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (film) 59
Time magazine 138
To Sleep with Anger (film) 58
Treut, Monika 54
True Romance 142
Truly, Madly, Deeply (film) 58
Truth or Dare (film) 16
Turle, Gillies 32, 41
Turner, Ike 46, 47
Turner, Tina 45–7, 293
Twilight Zone 270
2 Live Crew 74
Tyler, Carol-Anne 24–5
Tyson, Mike 130
underclass 171, 176, 193
Underground Railroad 270
“Untitled (Sugar Ray Robinson)” (Basquiat) 31
Vale, V. 49
Van Sertima, Ivan 233
Vanity Fair 12, 13, 56
Vietnam War 283
violence: domestic 20, 248–9, 250–1; upholding domination 293; eroticized 140–1; and masculinity 129; in rap music 134–44; as self-defense 152–3; as social norm 135–7; on television 159; against women 122–3, 136–7
Visions 44
voudoun 41
voyeurism 16–17, 140, 184
Walker, Alice 99, 112, 125, 126, 172
Walker, Madame C.J. 113
Wallace, Michele 183–4, 192
Warhol, Andy 28–9, 35, 38, 39
Warner Brothers 182, 185
Washington, Denzel 185
Washington Post 190
Watney, Simon 277
Weiner, Lawrence 54
wellness 288
West, Cornel 50, 154, 193–4, 195, 294–5
What’s Love Got To Do With It (film) 45–6
“What’s Love Got To Do With It?” (Turner) 293
When the Moon Waxes Red (Minhha) 2
Whitaker, Forest 68
“White” (Dyer) 21
“white negro” 140
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy: boundaries 6; and Columbus 231–42; and film 50; and gangsta rap 135; and internalized racism 207–8; in journalism 89; metaphysics of 7; and Paglia 97; and The Piano 139; and Roiphe 124; and romantic partnership 67; term discussed 231–2
“whiteness” 22, 30, 36, 252
Williams, Patricia 261
Witness (film) 286
Wittig, Monique 283
Wolf, Naomi 87, 91, 99, 102, 109–17, 119–20
“woman” as universalized category 113, 119, 126, 274
Women and Nature (Griffin) 26
Women’s Studies 4, 7, 103, 106, 125
Woolf, Virginia 55
World as Lover, World as Self (Macy) 292
Worth, Marvin 186
Yale University 3
Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (hooks) 246, 255, 276
Yo-Yo 162
Z magazine 248
Zinn, Howard 236, 237
Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The heartbeat of cultural revolution
1 Power to the Pussy: We don’t wannabe dicks in drag
2 Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat
3 What’s Passion Got To Do With It?: An interview with Marie-France Alderman
4 Seduction and Betrayal: The Crying Game meets The Bodyguard
5 Censorship from Left and Right
6 Talking Sex: Beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary
7 Camille Paglia: “Black” pagan or white colonizer?
8 Dissident Heat: Fire with fire
9 Katie Roiphe: A little feminist excess goes a long way
10 Seduced by Violence No More
11 Gangsta Culture— Sexism and Misogyny: Who will take the rap?
12 Ice Cube Culture: A shared passion for speaking truth
13 Spending Culture: Marketing the black underclass
14 Spike Lee Doin
g Malcolm X: Denying black pain
15 Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the poor
16 Back to Black: Ending Internalized racism
17 Malcolm X: The longed-for feminist manhood
18 Columbus: Gone but not forgotten
19 Moving Into and Beyond Feminism: Just for the joy of it
20 Love as the Practice of Freedom
Index