Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

by Rolland Murray

When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their political radicalism and potency. While many observers have criticized the misogyny in this preoccupation, few have noted the challenges to it within the period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239725
• ISBN13: 9780812239720
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"