Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta

by Riché Richardson

Book Overview

This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black men--often contradictory ones--have emerged from the ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. Are black men emasculated and submissive or hypersexed and violent? Nostalgic representations of black men have arisen as well: think of the philosophical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820328901
• ISBN13: 9780820328904
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"