Title: Scripting the Black masculine body
First published: 2005
Description: "Scripting the Black Masculine Body traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in popular cultural productions. From early blackface cinema through contemporary portrayals of the Black body in hip-hop music and film, Ronald L. Jackson II examines how African American identities have been socially constructed, constituted, and publicly understood, and argues that popular music artists and film producers often are complicit with Black body stereotypes. Jackson offers a communicative perspective on body politics through a blend of social scientific and humanities approaches and offers possibilities for the liberation of the Black body from its current ineffectual and paralyzing representations."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African American men, African Americans, African Americans and mass media, African Americans in popular culture, Body, Human, Discourse analysis, Human Body, Masculinity, Mass media, Political aspects, Political aspects of Discourse analysis, Political aspects of Masculinity, Political aspects of Mass media, Political aspects of the Human body, Race identity, Race relations, Social aspects, Social aspects of the Human body, Social conditions, Mass media, political aspects, United states, race relations, African americans, social conditions, African americans, race identity, Human body, social aspects
Places: United States
LC classification: E185.86 .J334 2005