Searching for the new Black man : Black masculinity and women's bodies /

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Author / Creator:Henry Anthony, Ronda C.
Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.
Description:xi, 192 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9125385
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ISBN:9781617037344 (cloth : alk. paper)
1617037346 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781617037351 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Searching for the "New Black Man"? From Masculine Ideality to Progressive Black Masculinities
  • Chapter 1. Dominant versus Subordinate Masculinities and the Gendered Oppositions between Slavery and Freedom
  • Chapter 2. 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
  • Chapter 3. "What's Love Got to Do with It?" James Baldwin, Cross-Racial/Sexual Bond(age)ing, and the Cult of Hegemonic Black Masculinity
  • Chapter 4. Breakin' the Rules Socrates Fortlow, Ethics, and Walter Mosley's Constructions of Progressive Black Masculinities
  • Chapter 5. 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
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index