ISBN:
0415976863
,
0415976871
,
9780415976862
,
9780415976879
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 304 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Progressive Black Masculinities
DDC:
305.38/896073
Keywords:
Masculinity
;
Sex role
;
African American men Psychology
;
African American men Social conditions
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
In the struggle for pride and political agency, the imperative to ''be a man'' has been central to the lives of black males. Yet, what it means to be a black man-in terms of both racial and gender identity-has been subject to continual debate in public and academic spheres alike. ''Progressive Black Masculinities'' brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity. Collectively, they offer a roadmap for new, progressive models of black masculinity tha
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Contours of Progressive Masculinities; Chapter 1. Theorizing Progressive Black Masculinities*; Chapter 2. Remembering Our Feminist Forefathers; Chapter 3. Toward Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood LatCrit and Critical Race Feminist Reflections: Thought Piece, May 2001; Chapter 4. Toward a Pedagogy of the Oppressor1; Chapter 5. A Telling Difference: Dominance, Strength, and Black Masculinities
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6. Images of Masculinity in the Pauline Epistles: Resources for Constructing Progressive Black Masculinities, or Not? Chapter 7. Progressive Black Masculinities and a Christian Experience: An Autobiographical Perspective; Chapter 8. Reasonable and Unreasonable Suspects: The Cultural Construction of the Anonymous Black Man in Public Space (Here Be Dragons)*; Chapter 9. Incarcerated Masculinities; Chapter 10. Mirror's Fade to Black: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Class Ideation in The Cosby Show and Martin
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11. Welcome to the Terrordome: Exploring the Contradictions of a Hip-Hop Black Masculinity*Chapter 12. Beyond Competitive Victimhood: Abandoning Arguments that Black Women or Black Men Are Worse Off; Chapter 13. Gender Justice: Linking Women's Human Rights and Progressive Black Masculinities; Chapter 14. Breaking the Silence: The Role of Progressive Black Men in the Fight against Sexual Assault; Chapter 15. Bringing Up Daddy: A Progressive Black Masculine Fatherhood?; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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