Black Men Worshipping: Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment

by Stacy C. Boyd

Book Overview

Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where black Christian masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from black male negotiations with constructions of blackness, maleness, and Christian embodiment. Black Men Worshipping places fictive literary narratives such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and In My Father's House, and film narratives such as The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230113710
• ISBN13: 9780230113718
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"