Forthcoming book from Mark Anthony Neal will be a must read
Preface: Waiting for Leroy
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Foot Deep in the Culture: The Thug Knowledge(s) of A Man Called Hawk
2. “My Passport Says Shawn”: Toward a Hip-Hop Cosmopolitanism
3. The Block Is Hot: Legibility and Loci in The Wire
4. R. Kelly’s Closet: Shame, Desire, and the Confessions of a (Postmodern) Soul Man
5. Fear of a Queer Soul Man: The Legacy of Luther Vandross
Postscript: Looking for Denzel, Finding Barack
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