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Cultural Imagery and Racial Conflict in the United States: The Case of African-Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Richard M. Merelman
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This paper utilizes recent Marxist cultural theory to theorize about the cultural dynamics of racial group conflict in the United States. After laying out a typology of cultural relations between dominant and subordinate groups, the article examines data on African-American cultural penetration of American public culture. The data indicate that since the late 1960s ‘imagerial hegemony’ has yielded to ‘imagerial projection’ for African-Americans. The article concludes by speculating about some interpretations and consequences of this phenomenon.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 315 - 342
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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