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dc.contributor.advisorPennington, Dorthy
dc.contributor.authorSamuels, Phillip D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-27T21:21:31Z
dc.date.available2021-02-27T21:21:31Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-31
dc.date.submitted2019
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16945
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/31513
dc.description.abstractMandingo is a reference to a longstanding myth in American culture, that black men have an unquenchable desire for white woman. I will argue that Mandingo is an example of a racial archetype. Racial archetypes are specific images of a long-standing stereotypes. Mandingo is one such archetype. Mandingo conjures up an entire history of the rhetoric of miscegenation. For some it is the excitement of the big black cock (BBC) and crossing the color line, but for most blacks it invokes images of lynching, slavery, and police brutality brought on by the fear of black men while at the same time trafficking in a prurient landscape of American racial and sexual relations. Whether through words, pictures or movies, the Mandingo has become a dominant archetype in the pantheon of the African American experience. Charting the Mandingo emergence and articulation is critical project to discern how these rhetorical markers are part of a larger mythic narrative. With this in mind, I am interested in the ways in which competing racial and gendered myths and archetypes emerge and circulate within the semi-public rhetorical space of pornography. The image of the well-hung black man circulates through all forms of Western media; print, photograph, televisual, and digital. These images fill a particular void in the American racial narrative because it gives the public a framework to understand and decode black maleness with very real consequences.
dc.format.extent118 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
dc.rightsCopyright held by the author.
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectinterracial
dc.subjectMandingo
dc.subjectMILF
dc.subjectmiscegenation
dc.subjectpornography
dc.subjectsymbolic castration
dc.titleMaking Mandingo: Racial Archetypes, Pornography, and Black Male Subjectivity
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberHarris, Scott
dc.contributor.cmtememberInnocenti, Beth
dc.contributor.cmtememberJarman, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.cmtememberJelks, Randal M
dc.contributor.cmtememberMcDonald, Robert
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineCommunication Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2751-8953en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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