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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alter

African Americans in popular culture --- African American arts --- African Americans --- Racism in popular culture --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Hip-hop --- Rap (Music) --- Popular culture --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Hip-hop music --- Rap songs --- Rappin' (Music) --- Rapping (Music) --- Monologues with music --- Popular music --- Trip hop (Music) --- Hip-hop culture --- Hiphop --- Negritude --- Afro-American arts --- Arts, African American --- Negro arts --- Ethnic arts --- History --- Intellectual life --- Race identity. --- Social aspects --- Ethnic identity