Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing Sexton Jared Paperback
Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing Sexton Jared Paperback This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United…
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Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing Sexton Jared Paperback
This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. It argues that images of black masculine authority have become increasingly important to the legitimization of contemporary policing and its leading role in the maintenance of an antiblack social order forged by racial slavery and segregation. Bush's 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama's 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize.
It examines a constellation of film and television productions--from Antoine Fuqua's Training Day to John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side to Barry Jenkin's Moonlight--to illuminate the contradictory dynamics at work in attempts to reconcile the promotion of black male patriarchal empowerment and the preservation of gendered antiblackness within