David Ikard
Biographic Data
| ID | 223078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ikard |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ikard |
| SIGNATURE | IKARD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It Ain't Enough”: Toni Morrison and the Tragic Dark-Skin Girl Motif
Central to Toni Morrison's political strategy throughout her oeuvre is the disruption of the white gaze, a move that often exposes our readerly reliance on race to read human motivation. Employing what we call the “tragic black girl motif,” this paper explores how God Help the Child, Morrison's last novel, continues this disruption of the white gaze vis-à-vis her treatment of colorism, patriarchy, classism, slavery, and self-determination
Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America
Read an excerpt from Nation of Cowards Listen to an IU Press podcast with the authors about their book.
Who speaks for Precious? A black feminist analysis
The intraracial debate about the gender, class, and sexuality politics in the movie “Precious” has received little critical attention beyond popular media outlets. This essay focuses on the black patriarchal perspectives within this debate through a black feminist critical lens and considers why such perspectives continue to have political capital in black spaces. Under scrutiny also are the ways in which some black feminist-identified women scho…
White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
Journal Article White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Get access David Ikard David Ikard Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0043 Published: 01 September 2011
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Postracism in America
Many scholars across racial lines argue that the historic election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States marks the dawning of a “postracial era” in our country. Despite this claim and unprecedented enthusiasm that abounds within African American circles about the direction of race relations in this country, there seems to be a glaring ideological disconnect between the desire and reality of a race-free socie…
Love Jones: "A Black Male Feminist Critique of Chester Himes's "If He Hollers Let Him Go
n his insightful essay A Black Man's Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism, Michael Awkward asks an important question: Can black men like himself-those who are deeply invested in resisting patriarchal power, and for whom black women's lives, art, and literature have been crucial to their own intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development-do black feminist criticism? Responding to the womanist criticism of Alice Walker and Sherley Anne William…
White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
Journal Article White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Get access David Ikard David Ikard Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0043 Published: 01 September 2011
Love Jones: "A Black Male Feminist Critique of Chester Himes's "If He Hollers Let Him Go
n his insightful essay A Black Man's Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism, Michael Awkward asks an important question: Can black men like himself-those who are deeply invested in resisting patriarchal power, and for whom black women's lives, art, and literature have been crucial to their own intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development-do black feminist criticism? Responding to the womanist criticism of Alice Walker and Sherley Anne William…
Love Jones: "A Black Male Feminist Critique of Chester Himes's "If He Hollers Let Him Go
n his insightful essay A Black Man's Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism, Michael Awkward asks an important question: Can black men like himself-those who are deeply invested in resisting patriarchal power, and for whom black women's lives, art, and literature have been crucial to their own intellectual, emotional, and spiritual development-do black feminist criticism? Responding to the womanist criticism of Alice Walker and Sherley Anne William…
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Postracism in America
Many scholars across racial lines argue that the historic election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States marks the dawning of a “postracial era” in our country. Despite this claim and unprecedented enthusiasm that abounds within African American circles about the direction of race relations in this country, there seems to be a glaring ideological disconnect between the desire and reality of a race-free socie…
White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
Journal Article White Supremacy under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World Get access David Ikard David Ikard Florida State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0043 Published: 01 September 2011
Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America
Read an excerpt from Nation of Cowards Listen to an IU Press podcast with the authors about their book.
Who speaks for Precious? A black feminist analysis
The intraracial debate about the gender, class, and sexuality politics in the movie “Precious” has received little critical attention beyond popular media outlets. This essay focuses on the black patriarchal perspectives within this debate through a black feminist critical lens and considers why such perspectives continue to have political capital in black spaces. Under scrutiny also are the ways in which some black feminist-identified women scho…
Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
It Ain't Enough”: Toni Morrison and the Tragic Dark-Skin Girl Motif
Central to Toni Morrison's political strategy throughout her oeuvre is the disruption of the white gaze, a move that often exposes our readerly reliance on race to read human motivation. Employing what we call the “tragic black girl motif,” this paper explores how God Help the Child, Morrison's last novel, continues this disruption of the white gaze vis-à-vis her treatment of colorism, patriarchy, classism, slavery, and self-determination
Art (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · African americans (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · History (2 works)