A Question of Manhood, Volume 1: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, "Manhood Rights": The Construction of Black Male History and Ma

by Darlene Clark Hine

Book Overview

Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253336392
• ISBN13: 9780253336392
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"