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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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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
About this book
A major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet.
Author / Editor information
Maurice O. Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University.
Reviews
“A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”—Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity
“Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, Constructing the Black Masculine is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach.”—Nellie McKay, coeditor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustration
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Spectragraphia
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1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity
19 - Part Two. No hiding place
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2. ‘‘Are We Men?’’: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775–1865
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3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography
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4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being
108 - Part Three. Looking B(l)ack
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5. ‘‘I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like’’: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or, Jimmy’s FBEye Blues
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6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms
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Afterword: ‘‘What Ails You Polyphemus?’’: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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June 12, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822383796
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256
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17 b&w photos
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