Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-middle Class

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Pub. Date: 2009-11-20
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Patricia A. Banks examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.

Table of Contents

Constructing Black Identities
Seeing Ourselves: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Image
Collective Memories: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and the Past
Measures of Worth: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Dignity
Advancing the Race: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Community
Race, Cultural Participation, and the Black Middle-Class
Appendix: Research Sites and Research Procedures
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