Are You Entertained?

The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation distribution and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race politics and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to <i>Are You Entertained?</i> address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays interviews visual art and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues from music white consumerism cartoons and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code dance and <i>Moonlight</i>. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform avow politicize own and love blackness this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship.<br><br>Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin Patricia Hill Collins Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua Simone C. Drake Dwan K. Henderson Imani Kai Johnson Ralina L. Joseph David J. Leonard Emily J. Lordi Nina Angela Mercer Mark Anthony Neal H. Ike Okafor-Newsum Kinohi Nishikawa Eric Darnell Pritchard Richard Schur Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Vincent Stephens Lisa B. Thompson Sheneese Thompson