Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.

Author/creator Wallace, Maurice O, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
African American men--Race identity.
African American men--Psychology.
Masculinity--United States.
Ideals (Psychology)
African American men--Intellectual life.
African American intellectuals--History.
African American men in literature.
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism.

SeriesA John Hope Franklin Center Book
Contents Part one: Spectragraphia -- On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity -- Part two: no hiding place -- 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865 -- Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography -- A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being -- Part three: Looking b(l)ack -- 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues -- What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms -- Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
LCCN 2001006934
ISBN0822328542 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0822328690 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E185.625 .W355 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold