Scripting the Black Masculine Body
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Scripting the Black Masculine Body

Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media

  1. 189 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Scripting the Black Masculine Body

Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media

About this book

Traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in hip-hop music and film.

Winner of the 2007 Everett Lee Hunt Award presented by the Eastern Communication Association

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Scripting the Black Masculine Body
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. INTRODUCTION: Race and Corporeal Politics
  5. 1. Origins of Black Body Politics
  6. 2. Scripting the Black Bodyin Popular Media: Exploring Process
  7. 3. Black Masculine Scripts
  8. 4.ā€œIf It Feels ThisGood Gettinā€™ Usedā€: Exploring the Hypertext of Black Sexuality in Hip-Hop Music and Pimp Movies
  9. 5.Toward an Integrated Theoryof Black Masculinity
  10. Epilogue: ā€œThe RevolutionWill Not Be Televisedā€
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index