Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

by Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Book Overview

Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, the author shows how black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628461802
• ISBN13: 9781628461800
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"