Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

by Mark Anthony Neal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814758363
• ISBN13: 9780814758366
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.9"