Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities 1
5. I. READING MEN, READING RACE
6. Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity 17
7. Fiedler and Sons 45
8. II. WHITE LIKE WHO?
9. "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment 71
10. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 116
11. Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification 138
12. The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture 170
13. All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity 192
14. III. VISUALIZING RACE AND THE SUBJECT OF MASCULINITIES
15. The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II 231
16. "The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy 253
17. The White Man's Muscles 286
18. Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema 315
19. Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston 337
20. IV. COMING AFTER
21. Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities 361
22. Works Cited 387
23. Index 415
24. Contributors 419