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Lockstep and dance : images of black men in popular culture / / Linda G. Tucker



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Autore: Tucker Linda G Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lockstep and dance : images of black men in popular culture / / Linda G. Tucker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina: 305.896/073
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.
Includes discography: p. 184.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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
Titolo autorizzato: Lockstep and dance  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-48505-9
9786612485053
1-60473-151-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811492303321
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Serie: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.