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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817264703321

Autore

Summers Martin Anthony

Titolo

Manliness and its discontents : the Black middle class and the transformation of masculinity, 1900-1930 / / Martin Summers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908775-3-6

0-8078-6417-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Gender and American culture

Disciplina

305.38/896073/009041

Soggetti

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

United States Race relations

United States Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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, leisure, and cultural production. Examining both the public and private



aspects of gender formation, Summers challenges the current trajectory of masculinity studies by treating black men as historical agents in their own identity formation, rather than as screens on which white men projected their own racial and gender anxieties