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Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995
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- Creator
- Maurice O. Wallace
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822328544, 9780822383796, 0822328690, 1282920340, 9780822328698, 9786612920349, 0822328542, 0822383799
- OCLC
- on1053606674, ocn850216635, ocn191222175, ocm48468763
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-226) and index.
- Part one: Spectragraphia -- On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity -- Part two: no hiding place -- 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865 -- Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography -- A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being -- Part three: Looking b(l)ack -- 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues -- What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms -- Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks
Subjects
- African American men -- Race identity.
- African American men -- Psychology.
- Masculinity -- United States.
- Ideals (Psychology)
- African American men -- Intellectual life.
- African American intellectuals -- History.
- African American men in literature.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.