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. |