Mark Anthony Neal

Other The Current | Critterion Collection · October 28, 2020 "More than anything, Claudine felt like a reprieve; the film, directed by John Berry and released in 1974, gave audiences a compelling alternative depiction of Black life from those about Black drug lords and mafia dons fighting over real estate in the yea ... Link to item Cite

1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

Other Black Perspectives · December 31, 2018 Link to item Cite

Introduction: Wild seed in the machine

Journal Article Black Scholar · July 3, 2017 Full text Cite

The post-civil rights period: The politics of musical creativity

Chapter · October 26, 2016 Full text Cite

N*ggas in Paris: hip-hop in exile

Journal Article Social Identities · March 3, 2016 This essay explores the meaning potentials of the exportation of American commercial rap music (exemplified via rap stars Kanye West and Jay Z) through the metaphorical lens of the discourse of exile. This perspective opens a view to Black aspirations as a ... Full text Cite

New black man: Tenth anniversary edition

Book · January 1, 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 ... Full text Cite

Guest Editors’ Note

Journal Article Souls · October 2, 2014 Full text Cite

Now I Ain't Saying He's a 'Crate Digger': Kanye West and the Soul Archive

Chapter · March 6, 2014 Through rap and hip hop, entertainers have provided a voice questioning and challenging the sanctioned view of society. ... Cite

Now i ain’t saying he’s a Crate Digger: Kanye west, “community theaters” and the soul archive

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of Diaspora

Chapter · October 2013 Cite

Nigga: The 21st-century theoretical superhero

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · August 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

Book · February 1, 2013 Featured Publication 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 profo ... Full text Cite

Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic

What the music said black popular music and black public culture

Book · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication Full text Cite

"I Am Not Just From Here:" The Roots of Hip Hop's Cosmopolitanism: A Reflection on Isoke's "Women, Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance in Dubai"

Journal Article Souls · January 1, 2013 This response paper considers the gender realities of the subjects in Isoke's Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Resistance in Dubai in relation to U.S. based hip hop artists who have recently begun to situate their work and image in larger international context ... Full text Cite

Looking for Leroy: Illegible black masculinities

Book · January 1, 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 ... Cite

Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s

Journal Article History Now · 2012 Cite

Finding Tea Cake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood

Journal Article Palimpsest · 2012 Cite

Transforming Black Men in Feminism

Journal Article Palimpsest · 2012 Cite

Thinking While Black

Chapter · January 1, 2012 Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was a long established tradition of the so-called “Race Man” - African American men who presumed the role of spokesperson for black communities. Though many of these figures were university-trained - ... Full text Cite

Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce (for Clyde Woods)

Journal Article Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography · 2012 Cite

That's the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition)

Book · July 2011 Cite

What Would Shirley Chisholm Say

Chapter · August 2010 Cite

Digging in the Crates

Chapter · August 2010 Cite

"Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhood"

Chapter · June 2010 Cite

Hip Hop Culture

Chapter · April 2010 Cite

The Chitlin Circuit

Chapter · April 2010 Cite

"A man without a country": The boundaries of legibility, social capital, and cosmopolitan masculinity

Journal Article Criticism · January 1, 2010 Full text Cite

Memory Lane: On Jazz, Hip-Hop and Fathers

Chapter · December 2009 Cite

"The Polanski Uproar: Criminal or Genius"

Other The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate · September 2009 Cite

"What Happened to All the Black Ball Players?"

Other The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Baltimore Sun/The Cleveland Plain Dealer · July 2009 Cite

"What's Driving Michael Jackson Mania? A Global Community Built on Pop"

Other The New York Times On-line–Room for Debate · July 2009 Cite

Applications and societal benefits of plastics.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · July 2009 This article explains the history, from 1600 BC to 2008, of materials that are today termed 'plastics'. It includes production volumes and current consumption patterns of five main commodity plastics: polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyst ... Full text Cite