Race, social science and the crisis of manhood, 1890-1970 : we are the supermen / by Malinda Alaine Lindquist.

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Main Author: Lindquist, Malinda A.
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Subjects:
African American men > Race identity.
African American men > Psychology.
African American men > Social conditions > 20th century.
Masculinity > United States.
Social sciences > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:x, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : inventing the young black male : race, science, and power
  • "We are men, the rest are something else" : rewriting social darwinism as a "revelation of the white man"
  • "To make a name in science and thus to raise my race" : scientific manhood in the age of Du Bois, 1893-1963
  • "We regarded with pride all the male members of the family" : E. Franklin Frazier from founding fathers and masculine proletariats to the bourgeois "lady among the races"
  • Horace Cayton's wars : the race man, psychoanalysis and the politics of black emasculation
  • "Boys cannot learn to be men in a manless family" : from class to gender in the black boy crisis, 1940-1965.