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Black dreams: a cultural history of the American dream in Black popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries
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Allen-Lamphere, Reniqua. Black dreams: a cultural history of the American dream in Black popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-he0b-ye94

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TitleBlack dreams: a cultural history of the American dream in Black popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries
NameAllen-Lamphere, Reniqua (author); Feldstein, Ruth (chair); Snyder, Robert (internal member); Butterfield, Sherri-Ann (outside member); Wolfson, Todd (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2020
Other Date2020-10 (degree)
SubjectAmerican Dream, American Studies
Extent1 online resource (iv, 376 pages)
DescriptionThis dissertation explores how the American dream has been understood in Black popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, providing a cultural history of the idea in three distinct periods in Black America: the great migration, the civil rights movement, and the hip-hop era. Although the dream has been an accessible and prevalent way to explore notions of success and mobility in America, it also has been a problematic myth that has not adequately described lack of opportunity in Black America. African American popular culture has therefore responded to the ideology of the dream through both a material lens of upward class mobility but also a moral frame of a struggle for justice and freedom. By complicating our interpretation of the Black American dream, we can better understand the history of this marginalized community and how hope and aspiration were deployed in the Black community from the great migration to the age of President Donald Trump.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-he0b-ye94
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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