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Mark Anthony Neal

Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

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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 potentia… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8147-5836-6
  • EAN: 9780814758366
  • Produktnummer: 29377297
  • Verlag: New York Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 207 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.5 cm 295 g
  • Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor


Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of several books, including New Black Man and Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, and the host of the weekly webcast Left of Black.

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