This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President Geo

"In this analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the academ

Discusses media portrayals of black men who are outside the expected roles of stock characters and are thus, "illegible" to spectators.

Uncovering a whole generation of militant Black characters onscreen long before Shaft or Sweetback, Militant Visions examines the depiction of African American

This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O’Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations