Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)

Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)Christina N. Bakers Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book length analysis of representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing meanings of Blackness that draw from their personal experiences and create new symbolic meaning of Black femaleness within mainstream culture.

and cheered her on through every performance

when attentive to the darker dimensions of life—or what we often speak of as the blues—can address many of the conceptual problems that plague contemporary African American discourse

a political poet

[If] the Negro represents

and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter

By using these techniques

and toward one of the darkest moments in America's history

In April 1976

and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact

Box and Gene have prepared Ty and Meli

Now the gang and the cops are after Rakuda

How do you respond when a coworker labels you intolerant for believing Jesus is the only way to God