Neal A Lester
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 805068 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neal A Lester |
| PRENOMES | Neal A |
| SOBRENOME | Lester |
| ASSINATURA | LESTER N A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6931-3548 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Introduction
Accepting the notion that “childhood” and “adulthood” are social constructs and not biological facts affords an opportunity to see and understand how the lived experiences of children and adults, past and present, intersect in complicated and multitextured ways [...]
Beyond physical and representational violence
George Floyd's May 2020 murder by police underscored the interconnectedness of violence, systemic racism, and white supremacy in the US. This essay explores violence against Black children as an historical extension of the violence against Black adults and communities that is often at the centre of social justice and anti-racism work. We connect recent social media posts of Black children being ignored, waved away, or pushed by public amusement p…
Digital Blackface
The adultification of Black children is a form of anti-Blackness that brings Black children into adult situations. The adultification of Black children can be rooted in early 20th-century children’s books with minstrel imagery showing Black children in perilous situations for adult entertainment and for white children’s learning. This essay puts “digital blackface”—the online cross-racial memes using Black children’s reactions, emotions, and ster…
Beyoncé's “break my soul”
In 2023, Beyoncé became the artist with the most Grammys in music history. Her dance track, “Break My Soul,” from her Renaissance album,* is a radical statement about community and self‐affirmation grounded in Black and queer cultural specificity. This article explores “Break My Soul” as an anthem of uplift, advice, and unity that offers hope and reprieve to a world emerging from a global pandemic and a “racial reckoning” galvanized by Minneapoli…
Black Children’s Lives Matter
Black children have never been exempt from the violence and abuse that have beset Black adults. Any comprehensive attention to and understanding of systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and intergenerational Black trauma must consider the historical violence literally, representationally, and fictionally against Black children and youth. For each news story headline about violence against Black children, there is a comparable Black adult story, unders…
Curating Identities in the “Other” Office
In 1989, I began collecting and populating my university campus office with items reflecting what I knew—from my research, teaching, and lived experience as a Black American—was racist Americana. These items have supplemented my teaching of African American literature and culture for over thirty years, invigorating discussions and breathing life into the texts we study. My collection challenges one of the most esteemed aspects of our profession—a…
At the Heart of Shange's Feminism
751 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 751-764© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 751 752 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 752 NEAL A. LESTER WITH NTOZAKE SHANGE 753 Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 753 754 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 754 NEAL A. LESTER WITH NTOZAKE SHANGE 755 Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM …
Going After Something Else
“Going After Something Else”Sapphire on the Evolution from PUSH to Precious and The Kid Elizabeth A. McNeil (bio), Neal A. Lester (bio), DoVeanna S. Fulton (bio), and Lynette D. Myles (bio) To shed light on the adaptation of PUSH to the screen as Precious (2010), we spoke with Sapphire in spring 2011 about the process, her involvement, and her assessment of the completed project. McNeil, Lester, Fulton, and Myles: Although it is known that the fi…
Disney's The Princess and the Frog
In Living Color
Examining how race, gender, and power construct and are constructed by the discourse of black/white interracial heterosexual personal ads, we find personals steeped in competing identity myths that perform a sexual politics of desire, and we show how these myths resonate with and challenge competing mythologies. A sliding scale of sexual economies, issues and loci of power figures and refigures race and gender. In same-race relationships, power t…
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!' Constructions of Heterosexual Black Male Identities in the Personals
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's med…
Shange's Men
Disney's The Princess and the Frog
In Living Color
Examining how race, gender, and power construct and are constructed by the discourse of black/white interracial heterosexual personal ads, we find personals steeped in competing identity myths that perform a sexual politics of desire, and we show how these myths resonate with and challenge competing mythologies. A sliding scale of sexual economies, issues and loci of power figures and refigures race and gender. In same-race relationships, power t…
Shange's Men
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's med…
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!' Constructions of Heterosexual Black Male Identities in the Personals
In Living Color
Examining how race, gender, and power construct and are constructed by the discourse of black/white interracial heterosexual personal ads, we find personals steeped in competing identity myths that perform a sexual politics of desire, and we show how these myths resonate with and challenge competing mythologies. A sliding scale of sexual economies, issues and loci of power figures and refigures race and gender. In same-race relationships, power t…
Disney's The Princess and the Frog
Going After Something Else
“Going After Something Else”Sapphire on the Evolution from PUSH to Precious and The Kid Elizabeth A. McNeil (bio), Neal A. Lester (bio), DoVeanna S. Fulton (bio), and Lynette D. Myles (bio) To shed light on the adaptation of PUSH to the screen as Precious (2010), we spoke with Sapphire in spring 2011 about the process, her involvement, and her assessment of the completed project. McNeil, Lester, Fulton, and Myles: Although it is known that the fi…
At the Heart of Shange's Feminism
751 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 751-764© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 751 752 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 752 NEAL A. LESTER WITH NTOZAKE SHANGE 753 Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 753 754 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM Page 754 NEAL A. LESTER WITH NTOZAKE SHANGE 755 Lester_Lester 2/14/2018 5:22 PM …
Curating Identities in the “Other” Office
In 1989, I began collecting and populating my university campus office with items reflecting what I knew—from my research, teaching, and lived experience as a Black American—was racist Americana. These items have supplemented my teaching of African American literature and culture for over thirty years, invigorating discussions and breathing life into the texts we study. My collection challenges one of the most esteemed aspects of our profession—a…
Black Children’s Lives Matter
Black children have never been exempt from the violence and abuse that have beset Black adults. Any comprehensive attention to and understanding of systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and intergenerational Black trauma must consider the historical violence literally, representationally, and fictionally against Black children and youth. For each news story headline about violence against Black children, there is a comparable Black adult story, unders…
Digital Blackface
The adultification of Black children is a form of anti-Blackness that brings Black children into adult situations. The adultification of Black children can be rooted in early 20th-century children’s books with minstrel imagery showing Black children in perilous situations for adult entertainment and for white children’s learning. This essay puts “digital blackface”—the online cross-racial memes using Black children’s reactions, emotions, and ster…
Beyoncé's “break my soul”
In 2023, Beyoncé became the artist with the most Grammys in music history. Her dance track, “Break My Soul,” from her Renaissance album,* is a radical statement about community and self‐affirmation grounded in Black and queer cultural specificity. This article explores “Break My Soul” as an anthem of uplift, advice, and unity that offers hope and reprieve to a world emerging from a global pandemic and a “racial reckoning” galvanized by Minneapoli…
Introduction
Accepting the notion that “childhood” and “adulthood” are social constructs and not biological facts affords an opportunity to see and understand how the lived experiences of children and adults, past and present, intersect in complicated and multitextured ways [...]
Beyond physical and representational violence
George Floyd's May 2020 murder by police underscored the interconnectedness of violence, systemic racism, and white supremacy in the US. This essay explores violence against Black children as an historical extension of the violence against Black adults and communities that is often at the centre of social justice and anti-racism work. We connect recent social media posts of Black children being ignored, waved away, or pushed by public amusement p…
Sociology (10 obras) · Art (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art history (3 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 obras) · Law (3 obras)