Scholarly Book Review Requirements:
•    In-class introduction of the work—see dates below
•    Five minute audio recording about the book’s central argument—to be posted to the wiki by end of term
•    Written, journal-quality book review. 750 words—to be posted to wiki by the end of term

Popular Fiction (general)–Week 11 (11/18)
Radway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Masculinity and Literature in the 1960s/1970s–Week 7 (10/21)
Murray, Rolland. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Film (Week 4–Keeling or Dunn–9/30; Week 5 Reid–10/7; Week 7 Watkins 10/21)

Keeling, Kara. “The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense.” (2007): xii, 209 pp.

Watkins, S. Craig. Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Reid, Mark A. Redefining Black Film. University of California Press, 1993.

Dunn, Stephane. “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas. University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Film Reception/Spectatorship (Week 4: 9/30)

Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Black Culture (general) Week 9: 11/04

Boyd, Todd. Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the ‘Hood and Beyond. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Reid-Pharr, Robert. Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Neal, Mark Anthony. Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic. Routledge, 2002.

New Media (Week 8; 10/28)

Everett, Anna. Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace. State University of New York Press, 2009.

Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Nakamura, Lisa. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Hip Hop (Week 13; 12/02)

Rose, Tricia. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters. New York: BasicCivitas, 2008.

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Pimps up, Ho’s down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Television (Week 6; 10/14)

Acham, Christine. Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Means Coleman, Robin R. African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor. New York: Garland Pub, 1998.