ABSTRACT
Representing Black Men focuses on gender, race and representation in the literary and cultural work of black men.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |69 pages
Against Patriarchy
chapter |28 pages
“A Cavern Opened in My Mind”
The Poetics of Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in James Baldwin
chapter |15 pages
“Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing
Black Masculinity, Gay Sexuality, and the Jargon of Authenticity
part |84 pages
Negotiating “Masculinity”
chapter |22 pages
Violent Ambiguity
Martin Delany, Bourgeois Sadomasochism, and the Production of a Black National Masculinity
chapter |16 pages
Chapter One of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery
and the Feminization of the African American Male
chapter |20 pages
“Stand by Your Man”
Richard Wright, Lynch Pedagogy, and Rethinking Black Male Agency
part |70 pages
Screening Men
chapter |15 pages
“We're Gonna Deconstruct Your Life!”
The Making and Un-Making of the Black Bourgeois Patriarch in Ricochet
chapter |32 pages
“But Compared to What?”
Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse
