Progressive Black masculinities
By: Athena D. Mutua, editor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780203961438
Subjects: Race relations; Psychology; Gender Studies; Sex role; Masculinity; Social conditions; African American men; SOCIAL SCIENCE
Description: In the struggle for pride and political agency, the imperative to ''be a man'' has been central to the lives of black males. Yet, what it means to be a black man-in terms of both racial and gender identity-has been subject to continual debate in public and academic spheres alike. ''Progressive Black Masculinities'' brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity. Collectively, they offer a roadmap for new, progressive models of black masculinity tha.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Contours of Progressive Masculinities; Chapter 1. Theorizing Progressive Black Masculinities*; Chapter 2. Remembering Our Feminist Forefathers; Chapter 3. Toward Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood LatCrit and Critical Race Feminist Reflections: Thought Piece, May 2001; Chapter 4. Toward a Pedagogy of the Oppressor1; Chapter 5. A Telling Difference: Dominance, Strength, and Black Masculinities