Roberta Wolfson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Wolfson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfson |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Polytechnic State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Black Bourgeois
Reviewed by: Black Bourgeois: Class & Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins Roberta Wolfson Candice M. Jenkins. Black Bourgeois: Class & Sex in the Flesh. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2019. 280 pp. $108.00 cloth/ $27.00 paper. On June 14, 2005, Oprah Winfrey was denied entry into the Hermès boutique in Paris during closing time. On July 16, 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for allegedly breaking and entering into wha…
Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction
This essay examines two oppositional figures in Paul Beatty’s debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle (1996), and most recent novel, The Sellout (2015): the exalted race leader and the excoriated race traitor. Positioned at extreme ends of the spectrum of exceptionalism, these figures function to perpetuate a phenomenon that the essay’s author terms the necropolitics of black exceptionalism, the paradox of justifying the violent oppression of the majo…
Chicano Gang Members at Risk
This article reflects on the emergence of a new literary genre in the 1990s, the gang memoir, which chronicles the lived experiences of current or former gang members living in highly policed, gang-ridden urban areas of the United States, particularly Los Angeles. Taking up Luis J. Rodriguez’s 1993 gang memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. as a case study, this article argues that gang memoirs use literary aesthetics to advance …
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Chicano Gang Members at Risk
This article reflects on the emergence of a new literary genre in the 1990s, the gang memoir, which chronicles the lived experiences of current or former gang members living in highly policed, gang-ridden urban areas of the United States, particularly Los Angeles. Taking up Luis J. Rodriguez’s 1993 gang memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. as a case study, this article argues that gang memoirs use literary aesthetics to advance …
Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction
This essay examines two oppositional figures in Paul Beatty’s debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle (1996), and most recent novel, The Sellout (2015): the exalted race leader and the excoriated race traitor. Positioned at extreme ends of the spectrum of exceptionalism, these figures function to perpetuate a phenomenon that the essay’s author terms the necropolitics of black exceptionalism, the paradox of justifying the violent oppression of the majo…
Black Bourgeois
Reviewed by: Black Bourgeois: Class & Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins Roberta Wolfson Candice M. Jenkins. Black Bourgeois: Class & Sex in the Flesh. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2019. 280 pp. $108.00 cloth/ $27.00 paper. On June 14, 2005, Oprah Winfrey was denied entry into the Hermès boutique in Paris during closing time. On July 16, 2009, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for allegedly breaking and entering into wha…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · American exceptionalism (1 work)