I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

Name: I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780807855935

ISBN-10: 0807855936

ISBN-13: 9780807855935

Edition: 2005

Authors: Steve Estes

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The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality. Estes begins with an analysis of the role of black men in World War II and then examines the segregationists, who demonized black male sexuality and…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 1.012

Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and consultant to nonprofit groups across the country. She has directed the Duke University Writers' Workshop since 1989, was a founder of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and is past chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council.Anne E. Marshall is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.



Introduction : am I not a man and a brother?



Man the guns



A question of honor



Freedom summer and the Mississippi movement



God's angry men



The Moynihan report



I am a man! : the Memphis sanitation strike



"The baddest motherfuckers ever to set foot inside of history"


Conclusion : "the heartz of men"