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Banks, Patricia Ann.

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Art, identity, and the new black middle-class: How elite blacks construct their identity through the consumption of visual art.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Art, identity, and the new black middle-class: How elite blacks construct their identity through the consumption of visual art./
Author:	Banks, Patricia Ann.
Description:	148 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Lawrence D. Bobo.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217670
ISBN:	9780542691874

Art, identity, and the new black middle-class: How elite blacks construct their identity through the consumption of visual art.
Banks, Patricia Ann.

Art, identity, and the new black middle-class: How elite blacks construct their identity through the consumption of visual art. - 148 p.

Adviser: Lawrence D. Bobo.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

Scholars argue that black middle-class lifestyles revolve around the negotiation of class and racial boundaries. To gain elite privilege or connect with black roots, middle-class blacks turn to cultural objects such as music, clothing, and language. Using the case of visual art, I problematize this prevailing depiction of black middle-class cultural consumption and identity. My central argument is that middle-class blacks use cultural consumption to reproduce and transcend class and color lines.

ISBN: 9780542691874Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Art, identity, and the new black middle-class: How elite blacks construct their identity through the consumption of visual art.
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520 $a Scholars argue that black middle-class lifestyles revolve around the negotiation of class and racial boundaries. To gain elite privilege or connect with black roots, middle-class blacks turn to cultural objects such as music, clothing, and language. Using the case of visual art, I problematize this prevailing depiction of black middle-class cultural consumption and identity. My central argument is that middle-class blacks use cultural consumption to reproduce and transcend class and color lines.
520 $a Drawing on 103 in-depth interviews with middle-class blacks in New York and Atlanta, and photographs of art in their homes, I develop and empirically demonstrate a nested-identity framework for analyzing black middle-class consumption of visual art. I argue that at the most intimate level art is a medium that allows middle-class blacks to define their individuality; at the next level it allows them to give concrete expression to membership in particularistic groups, both black and middle-class; and finally, on the broadest level, art allows middle-class blacks to create a sense of connection to other racial and class groups.
520 $a A secondary goal of my dissertation is to refine existing theories on racial and class identities and black middle-class consumption. I extend theory on the former by outlining the specific dimensions of racial identity that are linked to cultural objects, and by showing how black immigrants preserve ethnic distinctions through art. I advance theory on the latter by illustrating how art consumption maintains middle-class identity by sensitizing black elites to financial freedom and constraints.
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