The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & the Crisis of Masculinity

by William F. Pinar

Perhaps not since Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic An American Dilemma has a book appeared as synoptic and unsettling as The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America. Here William F. Pinar elucidates the great ?American dilemma?, that ?peculiar? institution of racial subjugation, especially its gendered - and specifically ?queer? - psychosexual dynamics. Explicating in detail two imprinting episodes in American racial history - lynching and prison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820451320
• ISBN13: 9780820451329
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 1272 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.