Searching for the new Black man [electronic resource] : Black masculinity and women's bodies / Ronda C. Henry Anthony.
Material type: TextSeries: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American StudiesPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages )ISBN:- 9781621039259
- 1621039250
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 H468 2013
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.
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