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Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation  
Author: Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore
ISBN: 1573442577
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From Publishers Weekly
In this series of 11 essays, journalists Hopkinson and Moore probe black male archetypes of the hip-hop generation, but the Howard University grads' superficial application of Jacques Derrida's "deconstruction theory" limits the impact of their effort. ("Tyrone," the everyman moniker in Erykah Badu's 1997 female anthem, is the authors' cultural catchall for these black men.) Written...