3-0675 RACE AND GENDER PERFORMANCE: IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY IN POPULAR CULTURE AND FILM

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Kimberly E Simmons (University of South Carolina) and Raymond G Codrington (Aspen Institute)

Chairs: Raymond G Codrington (Aspen Institute) and Kimberly E Simmons (University of South Carolina)

13:45

Introduction

14:00

Madea, Masculinity and (Gender) Minstrelsy: the Politics of Gender Representation In Popular Culture

Jonathan I Gayles (Georgia State University)

14:15

Representation, Respectability, and Reflexivity: Ethnography of the “Real” Housewives of Atlanta, Broadly Defined

Riche Daniel Barnes (Smith College)

14:30

From Geraldine to Madea: Masculine Representations of Women In Popular Culture and Film

Kimberly E Simmons (University of South Carolina)

14:45

Realizing Rights, Racializing Resources: Popular Images of Race and the Making of Policy

Raymond G Codrington (Aspen Institute)

15:00

Discussion

15:15

Discussion

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