Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28500607M
- ISBN-139780814758359
- OCLC Control Number818866050
- Library of Congress Control Number2012043777
Classifications
- LCCE185.86.N394 2013
Description
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 gender.
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Other Editions
- Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities
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