Banks Represent

Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-135-17795-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 134 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, Patricia A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Constructing Black Identities 2. Seeing Ourselves: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Image 3. Collective Memories: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and the Past 4. Measures of Worth: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Dignity 5. Advancing the Race: A Portrait of Cultural Participation and Community 6. Race, Cultural Participation, and the Black Middle-Class. Appendix: Research Sites and Research Procedures

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia A. Banks is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College.