Lockstep and dance : images of black men in popular culture / / Linda G. Tucker
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| Autore: |
Tucker Linda G
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| Titolo: |
Lockstep and dance : images of black men in popular culture / / Linda G. Tucker
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48505-9 |
| 9786612485053 | |
| 1-60473-151-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811492303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.