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Book Review
Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities
2014
Overview
Picking up where his last book, New Black Man (Neal, 2005), left off, Looking for Leroy evokes Leroy John- son, the fictional character from the movie Fame (Alan Parker, 1980) and the ensuing hit television series by the same name (NBC, 1982-1987) as a conduit for conveying the complexities of black masculinity in the post-civil rights era.3 As a corrective to Locke's oversight, Neal uses the sexual ambiguity of both the character of Leroy and the actor who portrays him, Gene Anthony Ray, to queer contemporary representa- tions of black masculinity.
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University of Texas Press,University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press),Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan Library)
