BLACK POPULAR CULTURE THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL AFRICOLOGY: A:JPAS THE JOURNAL OF PAN AFRICAN STUDIES Volume 8 | Number 2 | September 2020 Special Issue Editor: Dr. Angela Spence Nelson Cover Art: “Wakanda Forever” Dr. Michelle Ferrier POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 2020 Editor Lead Copy Editor CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD AMY DREES Dominican University Northwest State Community College Managing Editor Associate Copy Editor JULIA LARGENT AMANDA KONKLE McPherson College Georgia Southern University Associate Editor Associate Copy Editor GARRET L. CASTLEBERRY PETER CULLEN BRYAN Mid-America Christian University The Pennsylvania State University Associate Editor Reviews Editor MALYNNDA JOHNSON CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON Indiana State University University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Associate Editor Assistant Reviews Editor KATHLEEN TURNER LEDGERWOOD SARAH PAWLAK STANLEY Lincoln University Marquette University Associate Editor Graphics Editor RUTH ANN JONES ETHAN CHITTY Michigan State University Purdue University Please visit the PCSJ at: mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal. Popular Culture Studies Journal is the official journal of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA), ISSN 2691-8617. Copyright © 2020 MPCA. All rights reserved. MPCA/ACA, 421 W. Huron St Unit 1304, Chicago, IL 60654 EDITORIAL BOARD CORTNEY BARKO KATIE WILSON PAUL BOOTH West Virginia University University of Louisville DePaul University AMANDA PICHE CARYN NEUMANN ALLISON R. LEVIN Ryerson University Miami University Webster University ZACHARY MATUSHESKI BRADY SIMENSON CARLOS MORRISON Ohio State University Northern Illinois University Alabama State University KATHLEEN KOLLMAN RAYMOND SCHUCK ROBIN HERSHKOWITZ Bowling Green State Bowling Green State Bowling Green State University University University JUDITH FATHALLAH KATIE FREDRICKS KIT MEDJESKY Solent University Rutgers University University of Findlay JESSE KAVADLO ANGELA M. NELSON Maryville University, St. Bowling Green State Louis University ii SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL BOARD BLACK POPULAR CULTURE Guest Special Issue Editor Angela M. Nelson Bowling Green State University Africology: The Journal of Pan-African Studies Interim Senior Editor Eric Jackson Northern Kentucky University Board Robin R. Means Coleman Carlos D. Morrison Texas A & M University Alabama State University Phillip Lamarr Cunningham Elwood Watson Wake Forest University East Tennessee State University Sheena Howard Christopher Witulski Rider University Bowling Green State University Rashida Shaw McMahon Joshua K. Wright Wesleyan University Trinity Washington University David Moody Lake Erie College Special Cover Art Provided by Michelle Ferrier, Independent Scholar Chadwick Boseman Tribute Art Provided by Abigail Cano, Dominican University iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Introduction: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal Collaboration ........................................................................................................ 1 ERIC JACKSON, ANGELA M. NELSON, AND CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES: Black Popular Culture Introduction to the Special Issue on “Black Popular Culture” .......................... 5 ANGELA M. NELSON “A Homegrown Revolutionary”: Linking Erik Killmonger to Tupac and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party ........................................... 11 PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM The Iconic Malcolm: The 1990s Polarization of the Mediated Images of Malcolm X .......................................................................................... 29 LISA M. GILL The Boondocks, Black History, and Black Lives Matter: Or, Why Black Popular Culture Matters for Black Millennials ............................. 49 A. J. RICE AND KYLE T. MAYS Trap Spaces, Trap Music: Harriet Jacobs, Fetty Wap, and Emancipation as Entrapment ............................................................................ 68 SEAN M. KENNEDY The Fallacy of the Nut Pussy: Cross Dressing, Black Comedy, and Women ......................................................................................................... 85 KATRINA THOMPSON MOORE Racialized Representations of Black Actresses: Power, Position, and Politics of the Mediated Black Woman ..................................... 104 ANGELA NURSE AND THERÈSA M. WINGE ii #GrammysNotSoWhite: Critical Race Theory and the Grammys’ Race Problem ................................................................................. 121 JASMINE HENRY Appropriation as Appreciation: Afrocentric Testifying in the Discourse of Teena Marie ................................................................................. 141 CARLOS D. MORRISON AND JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE OWN: Oprah’s Chicken Soup for the Soul in an Age of Angst ..................... 158 JOSHUA K. WRIGHT ARTICLES: Student Showcase Prototype of Sunken Place: Reading Jordan Peele’s Get Out through Octavia Butler’s Kindred as Black Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Narratives .................................................................. 178 BRITNEY HENRY “We’re Taking Africa to the World”: Commercial Self-Fashioning as a Vehicle for Collective Aspirations in the 21st Century ...................................................................................................... 191 JANNA SERRES TRIBUTES Black Popular Culture Icon Inspires Space, Exploration, and Communication Futures ............................................................................ 215 MICHELLE FERRIER Wakanda Forever ............................................................................................. 224 RAVYNN K. STRINGFIELD REVIEWS The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction ........................................................................................................ 227 Christopher J. Olson iii Book Reviews .................................................................................................... 230 Bryan, Victoria. Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration: A Wall Rise Up. Routledge, 2020. Jennifer Schneider............................................................................................... 230 Cusack, Carole M., John W. Morehead, and Venetia Laura Robertson, eds. The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom: Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture. McFarland & Company, Inc, 2019. Taylor J. Ott. ....................................................................................................... 233 Edwards, Erica B. and Jennifer Esposito. Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix. Routledge, 2020. Carljohnson G. Anacin. ....................................................................................... 236 Frankel, Valerie Estelle, ed. Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Essays on Film Representations, 2012-2019 Vol 1. McFarland & Company, Inc, 2019. Frankel, Valerie Estelle, ed. Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Essays on Television Representations, 2013-2019 Vol. 2, McFarland & Company, Inc, 2020. Kathleen Turner Ledgerwood. ............................................................................ 239 Friedenthal, Andrew J. The World of DC Comics. Routledge, 2019. Matthew Brake. .................................................................................................. 242 Grant, Barry Keith and Scott Hender. Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame. U Texas P, 2019. Kelly Brajevich. .................................................................................................. 244 Grossman, Julie and Will Scheibel. Twin Peaks. Wayne State UP, 2020. Martin John Fradley. ........................................................................................... 246 Han, Yaya. Yaya Han’s World of Cosplay: A Guide to Fandom Costume Culture. Sterline, 2020. Emerald King. ..................................................................................................... 249 iv Jaramillo, Deborah L. The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry. U Texas P, 2018. Jason A. Smith. ................................................................................................... 252 Johnson, Malynnda A. HIV on TV: Popular Culture’s Epidemic. Lexington, 2018. Sarah Symonds LeBlanc. .................................................................................... 254 Meehan, Paul. The Haunted House on Film: An Historical Analysis. McFarland, 2020. Miranda Corcoran. .............................................................................................. 256 Nochimson, Martha P. Television Rewired: The Rise of the Auteur Series. U Texas P, 2019. Noreen Hernandez. ............................................................................................. 260 Perez, Maya and Barbara Morgan, eds. On Story: The Golden Age of Television. U Texas P, 2018. W. Joe Watson. ................................................................................................... 263 Rehak, Bob. More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Transmedia Franchise. NYU Press, 2018. Matthew P. Ferrari. ............................................................................................. 265 Reinhard, CarrieLynn D. Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities. Lexington, 2018. Bethan Jones. ...................................................................................................... 266 Taylor, T. L. Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming.