This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth cent

The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, b

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how blac

Beyond Blackface

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the