Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Power Relations in Black Lives

Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias

Edited by: Christa Buschendorf
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection

Volume 17 in the series American Culture Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839436608

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According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, #BlackLivesMatter in Ferguson).

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Christa Buschendorf (PhD, Professor em.) taught American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany).

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface Christa Buschendorf Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Key Concepts of Relational Sociology as Tools of Hermeneutics Christa Buschendorf Open Access Download PDF	11
Satin-Legs Smith and a Mississippi Mother Dissections of Habitus in Gwendolyn Brooks Astrid Franke Open Access Download PDF	35
Intellectual Disposition and Bodily Emotion Richard Wright’s Literary Practice Stephan Kuhl Open Access Download PDF	55
“You have to leave home to find home” Charismatic Violence and Split Habitus in Ralph Ellison’s Second Unfinished Novel Nicole Lindenberg Open Access Download PDF	77
(Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? The Logic of Reproduction in Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor Marlon Lieber Open Access Download PDF	101
“You People Almost Had Me Hating You Because of the Color of Your Skin” Symbolic Violence and Black In-Group Racism in Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier Johannes Kohrs Open Access Download PDF	123
Black Women’s Business Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Agency in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child Stefanie Mueller Open Access Download PDF	145
“What’s the Position You Hold?” Bourdieu and Rap Music Timo Müller Open Access Download PDF	165
“Decolorized for Popular Appeal” ‘True’ Stories of African American Homelessness Wibke Schniedermann Open Access Download PDF	183
Understanding Ferguson Suburban Marginality and Racialized Penality in the Age of Neoliberalism Luvena Kopp Open Access Download PDF	205
Transformations of Oppression The Case of Bayard Rustin Nicole Hirschfelder Open Access Download PDF	237
Introducing Disagreement Rancière’s Anti-Sociology and the Parallax of Political Subjectivity and Political Economy (of Racism) Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich Open Access Download PDF	257
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	281

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