ISBN:
9780253339249
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (504 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als A Question of Manhood, Volume 2 : A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, The 19th Century: From Emancipation to Jim Crow
DDC:
305.38896073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A Question of Manhood: A Reader in Black Men's History and Masculinity, is the first anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. The editors identified these essays from among several hundred articles published in recent years in leading American history journals and academic periodicals. Volume II picks up where volume I left off, continuing to focus on gender by examining the lives of African American men in the tumultuous period follo
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE. Your Old Father Abe Lincoln Is Dead and DamnedŽ: Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot of 1866; TWO. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Carolina: A Collective Study; THREE. The Freedmen's Bureau and Local Black Leadership; FOUR. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen; FOURTEEN. Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship; SIX. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866…1900; SEVEN. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877…1915
Description / Table of Contents:
EIGHT. Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not DownŽ: The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880… 1920NINE. A Constant Struggle Between Interest and HumanityŽ: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the New South; TEN. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868…1915; ELEVEN. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880…1920; TWELVE. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood; THIRTEEN. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
FOURTEEN. Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship: A Black Athlete's Struggle AgainstFIFTEEN. The Black Bicycle Corps; SIXTEEN. African Americans and the War Against Spain; SEVENTEEN. The Anatomy of Lynching; EIGHTEEN. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry; NINETEEN. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth; TWENTY. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglass as Representative Black Man; Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Authors;
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