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Eating Popcorn with Chopsticks: Revisionary Black Masculinity in Berry Gordy's the Last Dragon
2016
Overview
[...]hero Leroy Green watches Bruce Lee's film Enter the Dragon (1973) in a New York City mid town movie theater while wearing traditional Chinese male clothing (cant: cheongsam) and a straw hat while he eats popcorn with chopsticks. \"2 The Last Dragon, a box office success,3 functions as a fantastical space wherein Black and mixed-race authors (director Michael Shultz and screenwriter Louis Venosta) and audience engage in a complex, uneven, entertaining, and problematic relationship with Chinese and Japanese martial arts popular culture placed in a New York City context. Like the opening sequence of both the Hong Kong print and the Cantonese print of its genealogical, aesthetic, and nominative forbearer Enter the Dragon (1973), The Last Dragon commences with a musical martial arts montage/ The viewer is treated to Leroy Green-a young, sweating, brown-skinned, wavy-haired muscular man-practicing his martial arts forms. Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media, Negotiating Identity: Discourses, Politics, Processes, and Praxes (Albany: State University of New' York Press, 2006), 49-50. Amy Abugo Ongiri, \"He Wanted to Be Just Like Bruce Lee: African Americans, Kung Fu Theatre and Cultural Exchange at the Margins J Journal of Asian American Studies, 5, no. 1 (2002): 31-40. Vijay Prashad, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001); Bill V. Mullen, Afro-Orientalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004); Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen, Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political & Cultural Connections between...
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