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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 32 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 32 audio recordings related to her career as a cultural critic, journalist and intellectual since the late 1970s. The holdings are available in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division.

Subject

1. Wallace, Michele
2. African American authors
3. African American families -- New York (State) -- New York
4. African American artists
5. African American feminists
6. African American men
7. African American women
8. Feminism -- United States
9. Feminism and literature
10. Feminists in literature
11. African American journalists
12. Authors, Black
13. African Americans -- Psychology
14. Philosophy, Modern
15. Modernism (Literature) -- United States
16. American literature -- Women authors
17. Postmodernism
18. Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
19. Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
20. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Wallace 2004-24

Source (note)

1. Michele Wallace

Biography (note)

1. Michele Wallace is best known for her first book, "Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman." A feminist scholar, cultural critic and intellectual, Wallace began her writing career while she was student at City College of New York. Throughout the 1970s, her articles, essays, interviews and editorials appeared in newspapers and journals such as "The Village Voice," "Newsweek," and "Ms. Magazine," and later "The New York Times" and "Transitions." "Black Macho" (1979), Wallace's polemic was an instant bestseller. It is considered the first collection of essays published by a black woman, and the first book published by a black feminist. Wallace has taught at various colleges and universities over the course of her career, in addition to freelance writing. In Wallace's second book, Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (1991), she considers black popular cultural icons such as Michael Jackson, Ntozake Shange, Spike Lee, and her mother, Faith Ringgold, as well as black feminism. The book helped to establish Wallace as a formidable cultural critic. In her third collection, Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2004), Wallace continues to mine her theoretical preoccupations on autobiography, black feminism, postmodernism, and pop culture, and she offers provocative critiques on intellectuals Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and bell hooks.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Michele Wallace papers, ca. 1940-2004. Sc MG 739.

Author

1. Wallace, Michele, creator.

Title

1. Michele Wallace audio collection.

Publisher

1. [2004]

Biography

1. Michele Wallace is best known for her first book, "Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman." A feminist scholar, cultural critic and intellectual, Wallace began her writing career while she was student at City College of New York. Throughout the 1970s, her articles, essays, interviews and editorials appeared in newspapers and journals such as "The Village Voice," "Newsweek," and "Ms. Magazine," and later "The New York Times" and "Transitions." "Black Macho" (1979), Wallace's polemic was an instant bestseller. It is considered the first collection of essays published by a black woman, and the first book published by a black feminist. Wallace has taught at various colleges and universities over the course of her career, in addition to freelance writing. In Wallace's second book, Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory (1991), she considers black popular cultural icons such as Michael Jackson, Ntozake Shange, Spike Lee, and her mother, Faith Ringgold, as well as black feminism. The book helped to establish Wallace as a formidable cultural critic. In her third collection, Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2004), Wallace continues to mine her theoretical preoccupations on autobiography, black feminism, postmodernism, and pop culture, and she offers provocative critiques on intellectuals Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and bell hooks.

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Michele Wallace papers, ca. 1940-2004. Sc MG 739.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Wallace, Michele. Black macho and the myth of the superwoman.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Wallace 2004-24