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Author: Magee, Carol
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In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities.

In exploring the multiple meanings that "Africa" has in American popular culture, Africa in the American Imagination argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War, civil rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid and post-apartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.

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Title Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Author Carol Magee
Binding Hardback
Edition [ Edition: first
Pages 280
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Publication date 2012-01
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781617031526 / 1617031526
Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - United States, Identity (Philosophical concept)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011016102
Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

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Choice, 07/01/2012, Page 0

About the author

Carol Magee is assistant professor of art history at the University of North Carolina.

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