Description: Further DetailsTitle: Looking for LeroyCondition: NewSubtitle: Illegible Black MasculinitiesISBN-10: 0814758363EAN: 9780814758366ISBN: 9780814758366Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/22/2013Description: Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most “legible” black male bodies are often rendered as criminal, bodies in need of policing and containment. Ironically, Neal argues, this sort of legibility brings welcome relief to white America, providing easily identifiable images of black men in an era defined by shifts in racial, sexual, and gendered identities. Neal highlights the radical potential of rendering legible black male bodies—those bodies that are all too real for us—as illegible, while simultaneously rendering illegible black male bodies—those versions of black masculinity that we can’t believe are real—as legible. In examining figures such as hip-hop entrepreneur and artist Jay-Z, R&B Svengali R. Kelly, the late vocalist Luther Vandross, and characters from the hit HBO series The Wire, among others, Neal demonstrates how distinct representations of black masculinity can break the links in the public imagination that create antagonism toward black men. Looking for Leroy features close readings of contemporary black masculinity and popular culture, highlighting both the complexity and accessibility of black men and boys through visual and sonic cues within American culture, media, and public policy. By rendering legible the illegible, Neal maps the range of identifications and anxieties that have marked the performance and reception of post-Civil Rights era African American masculinity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 295gAuthor: Mark Anthony NealGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Postmillennial PopTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Looking for Leroy
Title: Looking for Leroy
Subtitle: Illegible Black Masculinities
ISBN-10: 0814758363
EAN: 9780814758366
ISBN: 9780814758366
Release Date: 04/22/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Looking for Leroy : Illegible Black Masculinities
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Men's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Mark Anthony Neal
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Width: 5.9 in
Series: Postmillennial Pop Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
