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Lockstep and dance : images of black men in popular culture / Linda G. Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Linda G.
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African American men--Public opinion.
- African American men.
- African American men--Social conditions.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Racism in popular culture--United States.
- Racism in popular culture.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.
- Includes discography: p. 184.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48505-9
- 9786612485053
- 1-60473-151-6
- OCLC:
- 320323356
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