Anthony Neal: 11 books
Looking for Leroy
Illegible Black Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Mark Anthony Neal’s Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in profound ways, to and by their legibility. The most...
New Black Man
Tenth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Ten years ago, Mark Anthony Neal’s New Black Man put forth a revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century—one that moved beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and combat homophobia. Now, Neal’s book is more vital than ever, urging us to imagine a New Black Man whose...
Soul Babies
Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought...
Zyban & Me
The Diary Of How I Quit Smoking In 17 Days
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
I smoked for about ten years, and I attempted to quit a few times, failing.
This probably sounds like your story and like the many stories you’ve heard from every single other smoker you know. We have all tried, and we have all failed.
I decided to try one more time, and this time I decided to use...
Becoming a Social Justice Leader
Using Head, Heart, and Hands to Dismantle Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This important book helps school leaders let go of a "comfortable" mindset and enter a world of courageous conversations that examine and challenge the impact of racism and other forms of oppression on disciplinary patterns, instructional practices, and school policies. Authors Hunsberger,...
by Anthony Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book offers an examination of the signature weapon of Barack Obama’s presidency: his speeches. It provides an in-depth, analytical look at the words of Barack Obama through the social and cultural contexts that made the content of his speeches timeless. The book draws on the oral tradition...
What the Music Said
Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Songs in the Key of Black Life
A Rhythm and Blues Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Unburdened by Conscience
A Black People's Collective Account of America's Ante-Bellum South and the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In Unburdened by Conscience, Anthony W. Neal forcefully argues that influential historians have been unable to offer a complete account of ante-bellum-era American slavery because of their preoccupation with humanizing the slaveholders. He charges them with concealing the full horrors of slavery in...
Common Ground?
Readings and Reflections on Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...