I am a man! : race, manhood, and the civil rights movement / Steve Estes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estes, Steve, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Sexism.

Sex role--Political aspects.

Masculinity--Political aspects.

Masculinity.

African American men--Attitudes.

African American civil rights workers.

United States.

African American civil rights workers--Attitudes--History--20th century.

African American men--Attitudes--History--20th century.

African American men.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Masculinity--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Sex role--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Sexism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction : am I not a man and a brother?

Man the guns

A question of honor

Freedom summer and the Mississippi movement

God's angry men

The Moynihan report

I am a man! : the Memphis sanitation strike

"The baddest motherfuckers ever to set foot inside of history"

Conclusion : "the heartz of men."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0807829293

0807855936

OCLC:

56419637