Two smart Black women break the Tyrone code — with
affection, with respect, but with no illusions.
Black men as fathers, sons, teachers, lovers, rap stars,
professionals, fantasy objects, and cultural constructs — a
multifaceted picture of American Black men today.
You know Tyrone. Smooth-talking, irresistible Tyrone — the
swagger in his step, the sexy drawl, the poetry and rhythm
in his essence — the militant revolutionary of the 1960s
evolved into the pimp/thug of the hip-hop era. Tyrone is the
Black man seen through the media lens, through stereotype,
through the eyes of Black women. He’s "Talk Show Tyrone,"
all muscle and defiance, “an archetype converted to a hit
single.”
In Deconstructing Tyrone, the authors, journalists Natalie
Y. Moore and Natalie Hopkinson, examine Black masculinity
from a variety of perspectives, looking not for consensus
but for insight. With chapters on Detroit mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick, on the complicated relationship between women
and hip-hop, on babydaddies, on gay Black men on and off the
down low, on strippers and their fathers, on Black men in
the office, at school, and in jail, Deconstructing Tyrone
presents a multifaceted picture of American Black men now.
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