"I AM A MAN" : latent doubt, public protest and the anxious construction of black American manhood.

The author surveys historical and contemporary perspectives on and affirmations of black manhood and masculinity in the US. Wallace examines antebellum assertions of black manhood in the writings of David Walker and Frederick Douglass, and notes how the Civil War--in which black enlistment and milit...

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Main Author: Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967-
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2006.
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505 0 |a "Are we MEN?" -- "We look like men" -- Up ye mighty race man -- "I AM A Man." -- What is a black man? -- An overview of the readings -- Endnotes. 
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