Tagged: Black

Zadie Smith, November 22, 2016 | © Courtesy of Chris Boland/Flickr.

08/03/2019

The Political Factors of the Critical Reception and Endorsement of Minority Authors

In short, the success of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) authors has so far rested on three pillars: the authors’ choice of “fashionable themes,” publicity that exploits preconceived ideas about minorities, using genre...

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, The Freedwomen's Bureau, BLACKNUSS: books + other relics, Malcolm X Blvd. 131, Harlem, New York, NY, USA, October 12, 2014 | © Courtesy of j-No/Flickr.

Topical Spotlights

15/02/2019

BAME Authors, the Literary Establishment and the Publishing Industry in the UK

This essay discusses the creation of literary canons of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) fiction. A Blog Article by Izabella Penier. Literary canons are instruments of creating national identities. As Benedict Anderson has...

CBV_9472, Oakland International Filmmakers: Black Women Filmmakers Panel Discussion, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA, April 4, 2018 | © Courtesy of communitybridgevideo/Flickr.

Black Womanhood in Popular Culture / New Articles / open cultural studies

12/10/2018

New Article: Black British Women Filmmakers in the Digital Era: New Production Strategies and Re-Presentations of Black Womanhood

Emilie Herbert Published Online: 2018-09-12 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0018. Abstract The story of Black women in British mainstream cinema is certainly one of invisibility and misrepresentations, and Black women filmmakers have historically been placed at...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

20/05/2018

New Article: “Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown”: The Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Carmen Dexl / Katrin Horn DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0041 Abstract In this essay, we look at Titus Andromedon from the Netflix-sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2014-) as a singular phenomenon in contemporary TV: a black queen whose use...

Hernan Bas, Florida Living Exhibition, Feb. 14 - Aug. 20, Returning to the SCAD Museum in Savannah, Georgia, USA, April 7, 2017 | © Courtesy of JR P/Flickr.

open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp / Topical Spotlights

16/04/2018

African-American Artists and Performers between Camp Aesthetics and Racial Identity: Black Camp as a Critical Category

This article presents a blog version of Anna Pochmara and Justyna Wierzchowska’s panoramic introduction to “Notes on the Uses of Black Camp”: A special issue of Open Cultural Studies published in its inaugural, first...

A black woman with balloons | © Courtesy of Uwa Iduozee.

Calls for Papers / open cultural studies

05/11/2017

Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe

GUEST EDITORS: Anna Rastas and Kaarina Nikunen (University of Tampere) DESCRIPTION Submission of abstracts: 28 February 2018 Submission of articles: 1 August 2018 This special issue of Open Cultural Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/culture) explores the social and cultural spaces...