Searching for the new Black man
Henry Anthony, Ronda C.
Searching for the new Black man Black masculinity and women's bodies / [electronic resource] : Ronda C. Henry Anthony. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages ) - Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Searching for the "new black man"?: from masculine ideality to progressive black masculinities -- Dominant versus subordinate masculinities and the gendered oppositions between slavery and freedom -- Unsexing the black girl to get to the indian princess: the production of talented-tenth black masculine power and the cleansing and transcending of black (wo)manhood in W. E. B. Du Bois -- "What's love got to do with it?": James Baldwin, cross-racial/sexual bond(age)ing, and the cult of hegemonic black masculinity -- Breakin' the rules: Socrates, Fortlow, ethics, and Walter Mosley's constructions of progressive black masculinities -- Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, the economies of respectable black manhood and leadership, and the politics of collaboratively gendered black male feminist autobiography.
9781621039259 1621039250
Human body in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H468 2013
810.9/896073
Searching for the new Black man Black masculinity and women's bodies / [electronic resource] : Ronda C. Henry Anthony. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages ) - Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Searching for the "new black man"?: from masculine ideality to progressive black masculinities -- Dominant versus subordinate masculinities and the gendered oppositions between slavery and freedom -- Unsexing the black girl to get to the indian princess: the production of talented-tenth black masculine power and the cleansing and transcending of black (wo)manhood in W. E. B. Du Bois -- "What's love got to do with it?": James Baldwin, cross-racial/sexual bond(age)ing, and the cult of hegemonic black masculinity -- Breakin' the rules: Socrates, Fortlow, ethics, and Walter Mosley's constructions of progressive black masculinities -- Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, the economies of respectable black manhood and leadership, and the politics of collaboratively gendered black male feminist autobiography.
9781621039259 1621039250
Human body in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / H468 2013
810.9/896073