Race and the subject of masculinities / Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stecopoulos, Harry.

Uebel, Michael.

Series:

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Race.

Gender identity.

Masculinity.

Men--Psychology.

Men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity. The essays in Race and the Subject of Masculinities address this concern and focus on the social construction of masculinity - black, white, ethnic, gay, and straight - in terms of the often complex and dynamic relationships among these inseparable categories.

Contents:

Men in color : introducing race and the subject of masculinities / Michael Uebel

Desire and difference : homosexuality, race and masculinity

Fiedler and sons / Robyn Wiegman

As thoroughly black as the most faithful philanthropist could desire : erotics of race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment / Christopher Looby

Mezz mezzrow and the voluntary negro blues / Gayle Wald

Reading the blackboard : youth, masculinity, and racial cross-identification / Leerom Medovoi

The world according to normal bean : Edgar Rice Burrough's popular culture / Harry Stecopoulos

All the king's men : Elvis impersonators and white working-class masculinity / Eric Lott

The riddle of the zoot : Malcom Little and black cultural politics during World War II / Robin D. G. Kelley

The cool pose : intersectionality, Masculinity, and quiescence in the comedy and films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy / Herman Beavers

The white man's muscles / Richard Dyer

Fists of Fury : discourses of race and masculinity in the martial arts cinema / Yvonne Tasker

Photographies of mourning : melancholia and ambivalence in Van Der Zee Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston / José E. Muńoz

Pecs and reps : muscling in on race and the subject of masculinities / Deborah E. McDowell.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-413) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822319665

0822319667

9780822397748

0822397749

OCLC:

746936434