The Black Mise-en-Femme. Spring 2018 Vol. 48, No.1

Description

Introduction: The Black Mise-en-Femme
Mia Mask

“Don’t Be a Martyr”: Kinship, Intimacy, and Carceral Care in Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere
Marquita R. Smith

Black Women Having It All: The Rise of Professional Women in African American Romance Films
Maryann Erigha

American Dreams and Demons: Television’s “Hollow” Histories and Fantasies of Race
Lynne Joyrich

Trending Topics: A Cultural Analysis of Being Mary Jane and Black Women’s Engagement on Twitter
Felicia L. Harris & Loren Saxton Coleman

Caught Between a Thot and a Hard Place: The Politics of Black Female Sexuality at the Intersection of Cinema and Reality Television
April D. Lundy

Book Reviews

Jam in the Vine, by Lashonda Katrice Barnett/David B. Green Jr.; Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State, by Ira Dworkin/Brenda Gayle Plummer; The Black Jacobins Reader, edited by Charles Forsdick and Christian Hogsbjerg/Jesse Olsavsky; The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation, by Sharon Willis/Allissa V. Richardson; New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, by Claudrena N. Harold/Erik S. Gellman

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