Today, while we protest police brutality against black subjects and while we bear witness to the massive incarceration of one out of three black men in the U.S., this well-researched analysis of black male performances (and their connections to an audience of American anxieties and fears) is a useful tool to continue the much-needed theoretical work that brings psychoanalysis, affect theory, and mass culture together. It creates a language that can allow us to identify and hopefully undo the symbolic and libidinal circuits of racial and gender oppression in a society that has painted its skin in a colorblind tone.