Representing Black Culture Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States

Representing Black Culture provides an innovative and comprehensive analysis of the role that black culture plays in American race realtions. By analyzing films, literature, popular music, education, television, and governmental cultural policy, Richard M. Merelman looks carefuly at how African-Americans as well as whites have represented and projected balck culture into the mainstream. He then goes on to examine how this representation can change American national identity and reduce racial conflict.Merelman, Richard M. is the author of 'Representing Black Culture Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States' with ISBN 9780415910750 and ISBN 0415910757.