1. FMS 394: Lesson 11 TEENS, RACE, AND MASCULINITY IN THE 1990S

2.  What is going on in the early 1990s (and the years leading up to that period) that shape discourses of race, youth, and masculinity?  What are the patterns of representing black men that Boyz N the Hood disrupts?  How does Singleton’s film “demythologize” tropes of black masculinity? What new representations does he offer? What are their strengths and limitations? GUIDING QUESTIONS

3.  “The dramatic decline in black male life” (Dyson, 121)  Black men as victims and villains  Rodney King  Rap Music and Resistance HISTORICAL CONTEXT: THE 1990S

4.  Long history of stereotypes  Symbolic annihilation  Popular film vs. other media  Cooley High (1975) Cooley High (1975) REPRESENTING BLACK MEN

5.  Coming of age in the urban ghetto  Specific NOT universal experience  How is manhood defined? How does one achieve it?  What are the limitations of this vision of masculinity? BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991)

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