Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America

Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America - Scott Poulson-Bryant -9780739469453 New York: Doubleday, 2005. paperback oversized. Good. book design by Michael C. pub. Doubleday, div. of Random House Inc. printed USA is an oversize paperback book it has a picture of a naked man, with an outtie belly button, and a ruler across the front there are some defects in the front of the book the go through a few pages it looks as if someone was using this AS A base nailed - or somehow I went wild over the book -had very sharp teeth --doesn't really detract the belly button does. The spine is good shape - glued on the cover still glossy the edges of the pages, have darkened some with age it's printed on buffpaper rag anyways... Following in the footsteps of such bestselling, taboo-breaking books as Randall Kennedys Nigger & J. L. Kings On the Down Low, Hung brings a topic previously discussed only in intimate settings --out into the open. In a brilliant, multilayered look at the pervasive belief that African American men are prodigiously endowed, Scott Poulson-Bryant interweaves his own experiences as a black man in America with witty analyses of how black male sexuality is expressed in books, film, television, sports, and pornography. Hung is a double entendre, referring not only to penis size but to the fact that black men were once literally hung from trees, often for their perceived sexual prowess & supposed risk it posed to white women. Poignant reminder, he begins his book with a letter to Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in the mid-1950s --whistling at a white woman. For Poulson-Bryant and other men of his generation, societys deep-seated obsession with the sexual powers of black men has had an enormous, if often deceptive, influence on how they perceive themselves and on the assumptions made by others. His tales of his sexual encounters with both sexes, along with anecdotes about the lives of various friends and colleagues, are wryly and at times shockingly revealing. Enduring racial perceptions have shaped popular culture as well, and Poulson-Bryant offers a thorough, thought-provoking look at media-created images of the Well-Hung Black Male. He deftly deconstructs movies like Mandingo and Shaft, articles in the popular press, and edgy works like Robert Mapplethorpes Black Book, while also providing distinctive profiles of icons like porn star Lexington Steele and rapper L.L. Cool J.A scintillating mixture of memoir and cultural commentary, Hung is the first and only book to take on phallic fixation and uncover what lies below. Readers may be scandalized, but theyll also have plenty to ponder about Americas views on how black men measure up. Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America Author Scott Poulson-Bryant Edition unabridged Publisher Crown Publishing Group, 2011 ISBN 0307781410, 9780307781413 Length 224 pages Subjects Social Science Ethnic Studies African American Studies Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies ....Ruth Reaser...LAX Vespa shipped through United States Post via media mail to fulfill your order, Los Angeles Area I carefully pack your book, hop on my Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system...