Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallace, Maurice O, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
African American men > Race identity.
African American men > Psychology.
Masculinity > United States.
Ideals (Psychology)
African American men > Intellectual life.
African American intellectuals > History.
African American men in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part one: Spectragraphia
  • On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity
  • Part two: no hiding place
  • 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865
  • Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography
  • A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being
  • Part three: Looking b(l)ack
  • 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues
  • What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms
  • Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.