Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
by Robin D. G. Kelley
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Noted historian Robin D.G. Kelley is tired of people talking about his mama and folks like her. He's tired of victim-blaming critics and policies that pin most of our social ills on the black urban poor. In Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Kelley fights back. In this provocative and timely book, he examines how scholars, activists, policy makers, and displaced working people themselves have made sense of the contemporary ghetto. At the same time, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! gives voice to the very show more urban populations rendered silent by their attackers. He asks us to see culture and community as more than responses to, or products of, oppression. Ultimately, this is a hopeful book. Kelley reveals how new multiracial social movements emerging today have the potential of transforming the nation. show lessTags
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An articulate expression of anger at the portrayal of urban black America as culturally dysfunctional in American academia, politics, and media. Looks at urban issues through the lens of resistance and cultural expression. Rejects the use of white middle-class values in evaluating black culture.
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Robin D. G. Kelley, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, is professor of history and Africana studies at New York University City
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- Canonical title
- Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
- Original publication date
- 1997
- Important places
- USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Full title (1997): Yo' mama's disfunktional! : fighting the culture wars in urban America / Robin D.G. Kelley
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896073 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin standard subdivisions / located in North America African Americans {United States Blacks}
- LCC
- E185.86 .K45 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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