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

✍ Scribed by Patricia A. Banks

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 134
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. She not only challenges common assumptions about elite cultural participation, but also contributes to the heated debate about the significance of race for elite blacks, and illuminates recent art world developments. 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

Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Constructing Black Identities
2 Seeing Ourselves: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Appearance
3 Narratives of the Past: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and History
4 Measures of Worth: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Dignity
5 Advancing the Race: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Community
6 New Perspectives on Race, Cultural Participation, and the Black Middle-Class
Appendix: Research Sites and Research Procedures
Notes
References
Index

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