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Autore |
Tucker Linda G |
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Titolo |
Lockstep and dance [[electronic resource] ] : images of black men in popular culture / / Linda G. Tucker |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-48505-9 |
9786612485053 |
1-60473-151-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans in popular culture |
African Americans - Race identity |
African American men - Public opinion |
African American men - Social conditions |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States |
Racism in popular culture - United States |
Popular culture - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
United States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index. |
Includes discography: p. 184. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 WRITING HOME: Whiteness, Blackness, and the Showdown in the Big House; 2 THE LEGACY OF TYPE: Minstrelsy, Lynching, and White Lore Cycles; 3 COURT GESTURES: Cultural Gerrymandering and the Games That Black Men Play; 4 THE LAST BLACKFACE?: Forays into Film's Empty Space of Representation; 5 ""HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME"": Black Men, (Bad) Rap(s), and the Return of the Black Brute; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Discography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture examines popular culture's reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual, dangerous criminals, whose bodies, dress, |
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actions, attitudes, and language both repel and attract white audiences. Author Linda G. Tucker studies this trope in the images of well-known African American men in four cultural venues: contemporary literature, black-focused films, sports commentary, and rap music. Through rigorous analysis, the book argues that American popular culture's representations of black men preserve racial hie |
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