LEADER 03752nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910454563303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02919-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674029194 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786730 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231947 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231947 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207873 035 $a(PQKB)11594303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300258 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314268 035 $a(OCoLC)923109871 035 $a(DE-B1597)574496 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674029194 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786730 100 $a19980303d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace men$b[electronic resource] /$fHazel V. Carby 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $a228 p. $cill 225 1 $aThe W.E.B. Du Bois lectures ;$v1993 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-74558-2 311 $a0-674-00404-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-219) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Souls of Black Men -- $t2 The Body and Soul of Modernism -- $t3 Tuning the American Soul -- $t4 Body Lines and Color Lines -- $t5 Playin? the Changes -- $t6 Lethal Weapons and City Games -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aWho are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of The Souls of Black Folk reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois applied to racial achievement and advancement--a code that remains implicitly but firmly in place today in the work of celebrated African American male intellectuals. The career of Paul Robeson, the music of Huddie Ledbetter, and the writings of C. L. R. James on cricket and on the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L'Ouverture, offer further evidence of the social and political uses of representations of black masculinity. In the music of Miles Davis and the novels of Samuel R. Delany, Carby finds two separate but related challenges to conventions of black masculinity. Examining Hollywood films, she traces through the career of Danny Glover the development of a cultural narrative that promises to resolve racial contradictions by pairing black and white men--still leaving women out of the picture. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them. 410 0$aW.E.B. Du Bois lectures ;$v1993. 606 $aAfrican American men in popular culture 606 $aMasculinity in popular culture$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican American men in popular culture. 615 0$aMasculinity in popular culture 676 $a305.38896073 700 $aCarby$b Hazel V$0892213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454563303321 996 $aRace men$92243228 997 $aUNINA