Simone C Drake
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone C Drake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone C |
| FAMILY NAME | Drake |
| SIGNATURE | DRAKE S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
On Foremothers, Muses, and Black Feminist Theorizing
The Marketability of Black Joy
An unprecedented number of films directed and often written and produced by African Americans offering coupling conventions or the marriage plot as a trope began emerging at the close of the twentieth century and have continued with strong popularity into the twenty-first. The initial emergence of these films came on the tail of vicious debates and public rhetoric about dysfunctional African American families. As a means of talking back, or perha…
When We Imagine Grace
A Meditation on the Soundscapes of Black Boyhood and Disruptive Imaginations
In this article I consider how discourses of crisis and politics of respectability make it difficult to imagine black boyhood. While both forms of intervention are guided by good intentions, they nonetheless stymie research and critical engagement with how black boys experience boyhood. This article considers how a speech by President Barack Obama functioning as a precursor to formal announcement of the My Brothers Keeper initiative demonstrates …
Craig Brewer and Kara Walker
This article treats Kara Walker's antebellum silhouettes as a theoretical framework for interpreting how film director Craig Brewer attends to the melancholic bind that racial inequalities create between white and Black people in the South in Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan. Brewer's and Walker's cultural productions attempt to make both the past and the South inhabitable spaces, literally and figuratively for U.S. citizens across racial lines…
The Marketability of Black Joy
An unprecedented number of films directed and often written and produced by African Americans offering coupling conventions or the marriage plot as a trope began emerging at the close of the twentieth century and have continued with strong popularity into the twenty-first. The initial emergence of these films came on the tail of vicious debates and public rhetoric about dysfunctional African American families. As a means of talking back, or perha…
A Meditation on the Soundscapes of Black Boyhood and Disruptive Imaginations
In this article I consider how discourses of crisis and politics of respectability make it difficult to imagine black boyhood. While both forms of intervention are guided by good intentions, they nonetheless stymie research and critical engagement with how black boys experience boyhood. This article considers how a speech by President Barack Obama functioning as a precursor to formal announcement of the My Brothers Keeper initiative demonstrates …
Craig Brewer and Kara Walker
This article treats Kara Walker's antebellum silhouettes as a theoretical framework for interpreting how film director Craig Brewer attends to the melancholic bind that racial inequalities create between white and Black people in the South in Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan. Brewer's and Walker's cultural productions attempt to make both the past and the South inhabitable spaces, literally and figuratively for U.S. citizens across racial lines…
When We Imagine Grace
A Meditation on the Soundscapes of Black Boyhood and Disruptive Imaginations
In this article I consider how discourses of crisis and politics of respectability make it difficult to imagine black boyhood. While both forms of intervention are guided by good intentions, they nonetheless stymie research and critical engagement with how black boys experience boyhood. This article considers how a speech by President Barack Obama functioning as a precursor to formal announcement of the My Brothers Keeper initiative demonstrates …
The Marketability of Black Joy
An unprecedented number of films directed and often written and produced by African Americans offering coupling conventions or the marriage plot as a trope began emerging at the close of the twentieth century and have continued with strong popularity into the twenty-first. The initial emergence of these films came on the tail of vicious debates and public rhetoric about dysfunctional African American families. As a means of talking back, or perha…
On Foremothers, Muses, and Black Feminist Theorizing
The Oxford Handbook of African American Women's Writing
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works)