{"product_id":"9781604731514","title":"Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough rigorous analysis, the book 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTucker cites examples ranging from Michael Jordan's underwear commercials and the popular \u003ci\u003eBarbershop\u003c\/i\u003e movies, to the career of rapper Tupac Shakur and John Edgar Wideman's memoir \u003ci\u003eBrothers and Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLockstep and Dance\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda G. Tucker is an assistant professor of English at Southern Arkansas University. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHenry Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Behavioral Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTransformations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138675097840,"sku":"9781604731514","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604731514_p0.jpg?v=1763828247","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604731514","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}