Looking for Leroy Illegible Black Masculinities

Name: Looking for Leroy Illegible Black Masculinities
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ISBN: 9780814758366

ISBN-10: 0814758363

ISBN-13: 9780814758366

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mark Anthony Neal

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Mark Anthony Neal’sLooking for Leroyis 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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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 .



Preface: Waiting for Leroy


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Foot Deep in the Culture: The Thug Knowledge(s) of A Man Called Hawk



"My Passport Says Shawn": Toward a Hip-Hop Cosmopolitanism



The Block Is Hot: Legibility and Loci in The Wire



R. Kelly's Closet: Shame, Desire, and the Confessions of a (Postmodern) Soul Man



Fear of a Queer Soul Man: The Legacy of Luther Vandross


Postscript: Looking for Denzel, Finding Barack


Notes


Index


About the Author