Constructing the Black masculine identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775 - 1995

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, 1775-1853 -- Constructing the Black masculine: Fre...

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1. Verfasser: Wallace, Maurice O. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham u.a. Duke University Press 2002
Schriftenreihe:A John Hope Franklin Center book
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Zusammenfassung: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, 1775-1853 -- 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 -- The autochoreography of an ex-snow queen: Dance, desire and the Black masculine in Melvin Dixon's vanishing rooms
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 236 S.
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ISBN:0822328690
0-8223-2869-0
0822328542
0-8223-2854-2