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0-9 Barnett, Ross 113, 114 48 Hours 37 Beard, Carlena 126. See also Buckwheat 9/11 4, 13, 85 Bennett, William 140, 141 Berg, Peter 67. See also Friday Night A Lights Aaron, Quinton 93, 97. See also Te Bernstein, Robin 130–132. See also Blind Side Pickaninny image Abolition 25, 128 Berry, Halle Academy Awards 2002 Academy Awards 4 2002 Academy Awards 4 Monster’s Ball 5 Afterlife of slavery 121, 142 Binder, Guyora ix Aggressives, Te 170 Birth of a Nation, Te (1915) 28 Akinship, racialized 98 Birth of a Nation, Te (2016) xii Ali, Muhammad 48 Bissinger, H.G. 67. See also Friday Night All in the Family 133, 134 Lights Als, Hinton 174, 175 Black athlete 48, 72, 98, 102, 121 Antiblackness 4, 17, 26, 51, 80, 156 Black competitive swimmers 38, 47. See gendered viii also Pride in culture industry 4 Black complicity, institutionalized 4 Athletic Industrial Complex 93 Black criminalization 29, 57, 60 Attlee, James 183 as perceived sexual threat 21 Black freedom struggle 38, 124, 131, 134 B Black independent cinema movement Bait 16, 30 13 Baldwin, James 7, 8, 12 Black kinship 168, 169 Te Devil Finds Work 7 © Te Editor(s) (if applicable) and Te Author(s) 2017 195 J. Sexton, Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66170-4 196 Index

Black Lives Matter movement vii Civil War U.S. 91 Black male coming-of-age story 174 Clinton Administration 68 Black male cop character 6, 7 Coach Carter 67–69, 73–74, 76–79, 81, Black masculinity 3, 30, 56, 57, 85, 83, 85, 86, 121, 162 126, 145, 161, 168, 169, 190 character of Ty Crane 72, 81, 162 Black female masculinity 168 Coleman, Gary 125, 131, 132, 136, Black maternity 166, 168 137, 143. See also Dif’rent Strokes Blackness and gender 30 Colorblindness, neoconservative 4 Black Panther Party 59 Coogler, Ryan 2. See also Fruitvale Black patriarchy 79 Station Black power 55–57, 91, 123, 124, 133, Coppola, Francis Ford 141, 148 Apocalypse Now 28 Black radicalism 10, 60, 74 Crawley, Ashon 174, 189 Black “rascals” 121, 126, 130, 131 “Blacks in ofcialdom” 4 D Black state violence 26 Dangerous Minds 81 Black-white buddy flms 9 Dash, Julie 14 Black women 5, 14, 21, 23, 26, 110, Dawson, Kevin 41–43 141, 148 Dest, Stephen 170. See also I Am Shake- Black women flmmakers 14 speare: Te Henry Green Story Blaxploitation 13 Dif’rent Strokes 121, 125, 132, 133, Blind Side, Te 93–96, 99, 102, 110, 136, 142, 144, 146, 148, 117, 121, 162 149, 156 Buckwheat 122, 125, 126, 129–132, character of Arnold 125, 132 145, 162. See also Black “rascals” Dunye, Cheryl 14, 162, 166, 168, 172 and Our Gang DuVernay, Ava 14 Burnett, Charles 13 Bush, George W. vii administration 4 E Ellis, Jim 38, 43, 46, 48–50, 52, 54, 58, 61 C as depicted in Pride 46, 60. See also Campanis, Al 38 Pride Carrington, Ben 102 Emancipation 142 Carter, Ken 68, 74 Emancipation Proclamation 1 as depicted in Coach Carter 68. See Evers, Medgar 113 also Coach Carter Carter, Nell 38 Carter, Tomas 67. See also Coach F Carter Fanon, Frantz 23, 102 Child welfare 137–140, 148 Farley, Anthony x, xi Chiron, Greek mythology 184, 185 Foner, Eric 1 Civil Rights Movement, modern 1 Foster, Marcus 53, 58, 60, 61 Index 197

Friday Night Lights 67–72, 76, 79, 82, Interracial adoption 110, 121, 137, 83, 85, 121, 162 141, 150, 152, 156, 158 character of Coach Gary Gaines 68 In the Heat of the Night 6, 8, 10 Fruitvale Station 2. See also Grant, Oscar character of Detective Virgil Tibbs 6 Fuqua, Antoine 4, 5, 13–16, 18, 28, 30, 31. See also Training Day J Jackson, Samuel L. 6, 15, 68 G Jacoby, Joe 101, 102 Gardner, Chris 94, 95. See also Te Jefersons, Te 133, 136 Pursuit of Happyness Jenkins, Barry 170, 172, 174, 179, 184, Gerima, Haile 13 189. See also Moonlight Ghosts of Ole Miss, Te 115, 117 Jim Crow 44, 56, 91, 92, 113 Goldberg, Whoopi 4 Judy, R.A. 50, 56 Gonera, Sunu 46, 60. See also Pride Gordon, Lewis 17, 86 K Grant, Oscar 2 Keeling, Kara 170 Grifth, D.W. xii. See also Te Birth of a King Kong (1933) 28–30, 106 Nation (1915) King Kong as allegory 29–31 Guerrero, Ed 9, 13–15 King, Martin Luther, Jr. 74 King, Steve 141. See also Wilders, Geert H Kinte, Kunta 136 Hamamoto, Darrell 134, 135 Ku Klux Klan xii Hancock, John Lee 93. See also Te Kukof, Bernie 144. See also Dif’rent Blind Side Strokes Harris, Jef 144. See also Dif’rent Strokes Harris, Leslie 14 L Hartman, Saidiya 142, 168 Landlord, Te 122 Holder, Eric 1 Latinos 19, 23, 26 Hollywood 4–6, 11–16, 21, 28, 46, 48, Lean On Me 81 67, 86, 93, 97, 110, 134, 162, Lear, Norman 133, 134, 136 168, 169 Lee, Spike 5, 12, 13 Hoop Dreams 68 Malcolm X 5 Hoosiers 76, 82, 83 Lemieux, Jamilah 3 Hughey, Matthew 93. See also Te White Lewis, Emmanuel 133. See also Webster Savior Film Lewis, Michael 93, 96, 100. See also Te Hunter-Lattany, Kristin 122, 123, 125, Blind Side 126

M I Malcolm X 5, 30 I Am Shakespeare: Te Henry Green Story Malcolm X Grassroots Movement 3 170 Mandela, Nelson 38, 74, 75, 77 198 Index

March on Washington for Jobs and My Brother’s Keeper xi Freedom, 1963 1 Oher, Michael 93, 95, 96, 99, 100, Martin, Darnell 14 102–104, 112, 116, 162 Martin, Trayvon 2 as depicted in Te Blind Side 93, 95, McCraney, Tarell Alvin 174, 183. See 99, 162 also Moonlight as described in the book Te Blind Mehserle, Johannes 2. See also Grant, Side 93, 96. See also Te Blind Side Oscar Open Society Foundations Campaign Men in Black 161 for Black Male Achievement xii Meredith, James 112, 114, 116 Our Gang 121, 126, 130–132 Miles, Boobie 69, 71, 81, 162 as depicted in Friday Night Lights P 162. See also Friday Night Lights Parker, Nate xii Mitchell, Fritz 115. See also Te Ghosts Parting the Waters 47 of Ole Miss Philadelphia Department of Recreation Monster’s Ball 5 Swim Team 43. See also Ellis, Jim Mooney, Paul 39 and Pride Moonlight 11, 75, 172–174, 177–183, Pickaninny image 130, 145 187, 189, 190 Poitier, Sidney character of Chiron 172, 178, 179, 2002 Academy Awards 5 187 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? 8 reviews of 174 In Te Heat of the Night 6, 8 Morris, Wesley, review of Pride 49 Lilies of the Field 6 Moynihan report 141 Policing 4, 7, 19, 25, 31, 40, 80, 121, Multiculturalism, neoliberal 4 122, 161, 170 Murphy, Eddie 6, 37, 125, 131 Pride 46, 49, 51, 60, 61, 121, 162 My Baby’s Daddy 162 Prison 2, 12, 17, 31, 73, 76, 79, 91, 92, 166, 168, 172 N Pursuit of Happyness, Te 94, 95 Natal alienation 127, 150, 166 National Association of Black Social R Workers 137 Race to the Top xii National Football League 89 Racial allocation of guilt 23 New American Century 4 Racial capitalism 90, 93 New Negro ix Racial wealth gap 1, 39, 95, 139 Nixon Administration 2, 133 Reagan Administration 125, 140 No Child Left Behind Act xii Reagan-Bush Era 85, 134 Nyong’o, Tavia 127, 129, 131 Richardson, Matt 164 Roberts, Dorothy 139, 140 O Robeson, Paul 48 Obama, Barack 1, 4, 44 Roots 136 2008 election 4, 44 Rothman, Barbara 142 Index 199

S Training Day 4, 5, 7, 12, 15–19, 21, 23, Said, Edward 99 29–31, 37, 73, 121 Second Reconstruction 1 character of Detective Alonzo Harris 19 Shelby County v. Holder 1. See also Vot- Trump, Donald vii ing Rights Act of 1965 Administration 4 Silver, Stu 153. See also Webster Tubman, Harriet 30 Sinha, Manisha ix Turner, Nat insurrection xii Slavery 29, 31, 38, 42, 91, 92, 97, 98, 100, 121, 127–130, 136, 141, U 162, 168, 181 allegory of the slave trade 30 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 122, 127, 129, 140 maritime 162 University of Mississippi 93, 107, 112, Slaves ix, x, xi, 30, 42, 128, 129, 131 113 desire for equality x Ole Miss Riot of 1962 114 dream-work x, xi Smith, Will 6, 15, 94 V Te Pursuit of Happyness 94 Voting Rights Act of 1965 1 Sociogeny 182 Spillers, Hortense 42, 99, 141, 142 Squires, Catherine 136, 137, 142 W Stand your ground laws 3 Wacquant, Loïc 7, 91, 92 Stanley-Jones, Aiyana 2 War on Drugs 2 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 122, 127–129, War on Terror 13 143. See also Uncle Tom’s Cabin Washington, Denzel 4–6, 11, 12, 15, Stranger Inside 162, 165, 166, 168, 170, 19, 161 172 2002 Academy Awards 4 character of Treasure Lee 166. See Training Day 5, 12, 19 also Dunye, Cheryl Watermelon Woman 162–166 Symbionese Liberation Army 59. See Fae Richards 162–164. See also also Foster, Marcus Dunye, Cheryl Webster 121–158, 162 character of Webster 150 T Weekley, Joseph 2, 3. See also Stanley- Tate, Greg 169, 173, 174, 189 Jones, Aiyana Taylor, Lawrence 100 White Savior Film, Te 93 Tea Party vii Wilders, Geert 141 Tears of the Sun 16 Wilderson, Frank B., III 81 Tirteenth Amendment ix Williamson, Marianne 75. See also Tomas, Billie 125, 126. See also Coach Carter Buckwheat Wiltse, Jef 40, 43–45, 54 Topsy 122, 127–131, 140, 145, 162. See also Black “rascals” and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Z Townsend, Robert 13 Zimmerman, George 2, 3. See also Mar- tin, Trayvon