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Assignment:
Questions based on the following links and article "Joy, Creation, Being: On Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity" :
1.) First Impressions-What parts of the reading(s) did you find surprising, puzzling, useful, new, already knew, and interesting?
2.) Define black dandyism what is its cultural significance to black masculine identity.
3.) How does black dandyism provide a counternarrative to the negative depictions of African Americans that evolved during slavery and the Jim Crow era?
4.) How is black dandyism a manifestation of hip hop culture?
5.) Discuss respectability politics regarding black dandyism and the impact that is has on black male images represented in the media and society.
6.) Essential Message
7.) Significance for African American popular culture
8.) Points of agreement/dissension
9.) Summary/closing