Manliness and Its Discontents The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930

Name: Manliness and Its Discontents The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
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ISBN: 9780807855195

ISBN-10: 0807855197

ISBN-13: 9780807855195

Edition: 2004

Authors: Martin Summers

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In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current trajectory of masculinity studies by treating black men as historical agents in their own identity formation, rather than as screens on which white men projected their own racial and gender anxieties and desires. Manliness and Its Discontentsfocuses on four distinct yet overlapping social milieus:…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Martin Summers is associate professor of history at the University of Oregon.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Manliness



Does masonry make us better men?



A spirit of manliness



Our noble women and the coming generations



Discontents



Flaming youth



A man and artist



A tempestuous spirit of rebellion


Conclusion : the respectable and the damned


Notes


Bibliography


Index