I am a man! : race, manhood, and the civil rights movement / Steve Estes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Estes, Steve, 1972-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
African American men > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sexism > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations.
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Physical Description:x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : am I not a man and a brother?
  • Man the guns
  • A question of honor
  • Freedom summer and the Mississippi movement
  • God's angry men
  • The Moynihan report
  • I am a man! : the Memphis sanitation strike
  • "The baddest motherfuckers ever to set foot inside of history"
  • Conclusion : "the heartz of men."