Wallace Constructing the Black Masculine

Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8379-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

A major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wallace, Maurice O.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Spectagraphia

1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity

Part Two: No Hiding Place

2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865

3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography

4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being

Part Three: Looking B(l)ack

5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues

6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Room

Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maurice O. Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University.