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Autore |
Summers Martin Anthony |
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Titolo |
Manliness and its discontents [[electronic resource] ] : the Black middle class and the transformation of masculinity, 1900-1930 / / Martin Summers |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Collana |
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Gender and American culture |
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Disciplina |
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African American men - Social conditions - 20th century |
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions - 20th century |
Men - United States - Identity - History - 20th century |
Masculinity - United States - History - 20th century |
Sex role - United States - History - 20th century |
Middle class - United States - History - 20th century |
African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964 |
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United States Race relations |
United States Social conditions 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Manliness; The Death and Life of Sir John E. Bruce; 1. Does Masonry Make Us Better Men?; 2. A Spirit of Manliness; 3. Our Noble Women and the Coming Generations; Part II. Discontents; The Life and Death of Wallace Thurman; 4. Flaming Youth; 5. A Man and Artist; 6. A Tempestuous Spirit of Rebellion; Conclusion. The Respectable and the Damned; Notes; Abbreviations; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A-B; C; D-E; F-G; H; I-J; K-L; M; N; O-P; Q-R; S; T-U; V-W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, |
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