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[...]... section ofCulturalMoves Because ofthe pervasiveness and prominence of this relationship in the media, there is increasing culturaland social traffic across the discursive borders of race and technology, identity, and information Despite the quickening pace of this traffic between technology andcultural identity, many ofthe exchanges still center on questions of privacy and access, and on the growing... margins) ofthe mainstream; (2) to designate those practices that operate outside ofand beyond the institutional and aesthetic orbit of dominant cultural centers of power and authority like the Lincoln Center, PBS, andthe New York Times The concept ofthe jazz left then serves as an alternative point of entry for exploring theculturalpolitics surrounding the practice, recognition, and reproduction of jazz;... stage in thecultural logic of capitalism, while others see it as an expression of ongoing changes in the conception and operation ofthe nation, and, perhaps just as importantly, in the role of culture andrepresentation in the production ofthe nation.7 My chief assertion is that American commercial television networks are no longer the primary sites of mass-mediated theater and performance ofthe nation,... enactments ofculturalpolitics that sacrifice neither culture nor politics but appreciate the necessity andthe imperative of maneuver and tactic in black culturalpolitics If it is to continue to move effectively and productively, contemporary black culturalpolitics must get beyond the nostalgic paradigms and moral panics about representation, inclusion, andthe threats of technology (and their impact... has been central to the visibility, circulation, and legitimization of black cultural production in the national life and public culture of the United States.10 I am especially interested, then, in the insights these complex conditions of production andrepresentation offer for understanding the contemporary politicsof black cultural production, the shifts in cultural imagination and desire, as well... (especially in the genre of hip-hop) and image makers (especially music videographers) have commented on the centrality of race to the operation of the criminal justice system andthe law Through vernacular practices ofthe street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects ofthe state In therepresentationof crime the discursive alliance between the criminal... depends on the production ofthe black body as the site of pleasure and adoration, fear, and menace In crime discourse in the 1980s, the black male (youthful) body signified menace andthe loss of civility in the public sphere This narrative of loss was expressed most explicitly by media and politicians, through the steady expansion ofthe coercive arm ofthe state (e.g., prison and police) andthe privatization... economy structure and mediate these meanings In the context of globalization andthe new cultural logic of difference, media and television provide the examples with which I critically engage long-standing assumptions about media politics, surely one ofthe most hallowed and enduring sites ofcultural maneuver in black culturalpolitics This quarrel in turn leads me to questions of aesthetics and visibility,... issues ofcultural authenticity and identity) Indeed, rather than moral panics and entrenched cultural fundamentalism, the chapters in CulturalMoves encourage vibrant black cultural maneuvers and practices that see, imagine, and engage the world differently, in all of its complexity and myriad possibilities pa rt i Strategies chapter 1 The New Conditions of Black Cultural Production At the start of the. .. through the art of Kara Walker, whose works andtheculturalmoves they enact disturb conventional thinking about black visibility in late-twentieth-century America My interests in Walker and other artist of her generation are not just with questions of aesthetic judgments and their relationship to culturalpolitics As with the case of Marsalis andthe Lincoln Center, my interest in the debates and reactions . Slavery and Freedom, by Tiya Miles 15. Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation, by Herman S. Gray Cultural Moves African Americans and the Politics of Representation Herman. operate outside of and beyond the institutional and aesthetic orbit of dominant cultural centers of power and authority like the Lincoln Center, PBS, and the New York Times. The concept of the jazz left then. lack of one) between new technologies and the cul- tural politics of identity animates the final section of Cultural Moves. Because of the pervasiveness and prominence of this relationship in the media,