Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 /
Explores how African-American males have been portrayed in literature and society from 1775 to 1995.
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin Center book.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Spectragraphia
- On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity
- Part two: no hiding place
- 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865
- Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography
- A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being
- Part three: Looking b(l)ack
- 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues
- What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms
- Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.