This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male cultu

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male cultu

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male cultu

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. ... Using extensive p

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered—and f