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Power Relations in Black Lives - Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (Paperback)
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Power Relations in Black Lives - Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (Paperback)
Series: American Culture Studies
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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,
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