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He thinks he's down : white appropriations of black masculinities in the civil rights era / Katharine Bausch.

Bausch, Katharine, 1980- (author.).

Summary:

"The end of the Second World War saw a "crisis of white masculinity" brought on by social change. As a result, several prominent white male pop culture figures sought out and appropriated African American cultural trappings to benefit from what they believed were powerful black masculinities. In He Thinks He's Down, Katharine Bausch draws on case studies from three genres--the writings of Mailer and Kerouac, advertising and aesthetics in Playboy magazine, and action narratives of Blaxploitation films--to illustrate how each one engaged with black tropes while simultaneously doing little to change the racial and gendered stereotypes that perpetuated the power of white male privilege."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774863735
ISBN: 0774863730
Physical Description: x, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver, BC ; UBC Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Can he be down? / Rebel Artists? Literary Constructions and Appropriations of Black Masculinity, 1945-65 / Hef's Harlem Hip: The Soul Aesthetic in Playboy Magazine, 1964-79 / The New Badass: Blaxploitation Films in White America, 1971-79 / Conclusion: When Can He Be Down?