Description: Lockstep and Dance : Images of Black Men in Popular Culture, Paperback by Tucker, Linda G., ISBN 1604738596, ISBN-13 9781604738599, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK 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, th argues that American popular culture's representations of black men preserve racial hierarchies that imprison blacks both intellectually and physically. Of equal importance are the ways in which black men battle against, respond to, and become implicated in the production and circulation of these images. Tucker cites examples ranging from Michael Jordan's underwear commercials and the popular Barbershop movies, to the career of rapper Tupac Shakur and John Edgar Wideman's memoir Brothers and Keepers. Lockstep and Dance tracks the continuity between historical images of African American men, the peculiar constitution of whites' anxieties about black men, and black men's tolerance of and resistance to the reproduction of such images. The legacy of these stereotypes is still apparent in contemporary advertising, film, music, and professional basketball. Lockstep and Dance argues persuasively that these cultural images reinforce the idea of black men as prisoners of American justice and of their own minds but also shows how black men struggle against this imprisonment.
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Book Title: Lockstep and Dance : Images of Black Men in Popular Culture
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Social Sciences
Publication Year: 2010
Number of Pages: 277 Pages
Publication Name: Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Author: Linda G. Tucker
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
