Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

(Part of the Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies Series)

by Ronda C. Henry Anthony

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Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, the author shows how black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1628461802

ISBN13:9781628461800

Release Date:September 2014

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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