Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
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 bla...
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 bla...
