num_pages: 282
description: This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.
language: English
title: Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity
publisher: AltaMira Press