Looking for Leroy : : Illegible Black Masculinities / / Mark Anthony Neal.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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520 | |a 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. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) | |
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650 | 0 | |a African American men in popular culture. | |
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650 | 0 | |a African American men |x Conduct of life. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American men |x Psychology. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American men |x Race identity. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American men. | |
650 | 0 | |a African Americans |x Social conditions. | |
650 | 0 | |a Masculinity |x Social aspects |z United States. | |
650 | 0 | |a Masculinity. | |
650 | 0 | |a Men |x Identity. | |
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