Deconstructing Tyrone A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation

by Hopkinson, Natalie; Moore, Natalie Y.

• ISBN13: 9781573442572
• ISBN10: 1573442577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-25
• Publisher: Cleis Press

Summary

Tyrone is the black man seen through the media lens, through stereotype, through the eyes of black women. In Deconstructing Tyrone, journalists Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore examine black masculinity from a variety of perspectives, looking not for consensus but for insight. With chapters on Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, on the complicated relationship between women and hip-hop, on babydaddies, on gay black men on the so-called "down low," on strippers and their fathers, on black men in the office, at school, and in jail, Deconstructing Tyrone presents a multifaceted picture of American black men now. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Natalie Hopkinson is a staff writer at the Washington Post Natalie Y. Moore is a journalist and teacher in Chicago

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
CHAPTER 1: Boy Born Saturday	1	(28)
CHAPTER 2: Tyroninity	29	(16)
CHAPTER 3: Visible Tyrone	45	(24)
CHAPTER 4: Thomas, 36	69	(16)
CHAPTER 5: Hip-Hop	85	(20)
CHAPTER 6: The Pole Test	105	(18)
CHAPTER 7: Babydaddy	123	(18)
CHAPTER 8: Tyrone at Work	141	(16)
CHAPTER 9: Boy Born Friday	157	(30)
CHAPTER 10: Raising Tyrone	187	(26)
CHAPTER 11: Tyrones in Training	213	(22)
Notes	235	(6)
About the Authors	241