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R. Bruce Brasell
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Alabama
American Exceptionalism
Articulation
Asian Americans
Assimilation
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BCRI
Biracialism
Birmingham
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
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bro•ken/ground
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Christianity
Christine Choy
Citizenship
Civil rights movement
Color
color line
community
Crisis of legitimacy
Cultural Preservation
Cultural theory
Culture
Discursive practice
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Enunciation
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Ethnic Studies
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Family
Family Name
Film Studies
Freedom Walk
Gays
Gilles Deleuze
Heritage
Jr.
lesbians
LGBTQ
Living in America
Martin Luther King
Michel Foucault
miscegenation
Mississippi Chinese
Mississippi Triangle
Mixed race
Mosquitoes and High Water
Native Americans
Nuestra Communidad
Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Race Relations
racism
Real Indian
Segregation
Selma
SERF
Snowbird Cherokees
Southeastern expatriate road film
southern discourse
Southern States
Tell about the South
transgender
white supremacy

Product details

  • ISBN 9781496825537
  • Weight: 445g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro•ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region’s biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities.

Brasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial cloSet and the southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography. In the subsequent chapters, using specific documentary films, he considers the racial in-betweenness of Spanish-speaking ethnicities (Mosquitoes and High Water, Living in America, Nuestra Communidad), probes issues related to the process of racial negotiation experienced by Asian Americans as they seek a racial position beyond the black and white binary (Mississippi Triangle), and engages the problem of racial legitimacy confronted by federally nonrecognized Native groups as they attempt the same feat (Real Indian).
About R. Bruce Brasell
R. Bruce Brasell, Birmingham, Alabama, has published on film and issues of sexuality, race, and American regionalism in Cinema Journal, Film History, Journal of Film & Video, Film Criticism, Jump Cut, Wide Angle, Mississippi Quarterly, and several anthologies. He has taught film and media studies at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Vassar College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Manhattanville College.

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