ABSTRACT
Focused on African and black men and masculinities, this chapter draws attention to the minimisation and ignorance of the historical and persisting effects of slavery and coloniality on some men’s lives within studies of men and masculinities. The chapter deploys C. L. R. James’s dramatisation of Toussaint L’Ouverture revolt against slavery, against a man as property, as a resource with which to think about masculinity. The chapter contends that, because under slavery some men and women were property, the notion that some males are non-men who express non-masculinity is planted. If masculinity is a place in gender relations, what then is the place of non-men and non-masculinity in masculinity studies? This chapter contends that as there is (a) no-place for these non-men and non-masculinity in the field of masculinity, researchers are challenged with idea of studying non-men, blackgenders and non-masculinity.
