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I Am a Man! : Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Estes, Steve.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American civil rights workers.
- African American men.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements.
- Masculinity.
- Racism.
- Rhetoric.
- Sex role.
- Sexism.
- Political Science.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--United States.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- African American civil rights workers--History--Attitudes--20th century--United States.
- African American men--Attitudes--History--20th Century--United States.
- Rhetoric--History--Political aspects--20th century--United States.
- Masculinity--Political aspects--History--20th century--United States.
- Sex role--History--Political aspects--20th century.
- Sexism--History--20th century.
- Racism--History--20th century.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- African American civil rights workers.
- African American men.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements.
- Masculinity.
- Racism.
- Rhetoric.
- Sex role.
- Sexism.
- Political Science.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This explores key groups, leaders and events in the civil rights movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. He demonstrates that both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Am I Not a Man and a Brother?; CHAPTER ONE: Man the Guns; CHAPTER TWO: A Question of Honor; CHAPTER THREE: Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Movement; CHAPTER FOUR: God's Angry Men; CHAPTER FIVE: The Moynihan Report; CHAPTER SIX: I Am a Man!: The Memphis Sanitation Strike; CHAPTER SEVEN: "The Baddest Motherfuckers Ever to Set Foot Inside of History"; CONCLUSION: "The Heartz of Men"; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890877529
- 9780807876336
- 080787633X
- OCLC:
- 476236600
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