![]() | Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans -- Attitudes; Conversation analysis -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989–; Black nationalism -- United States; Feminism -; What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church, to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. |
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