Race and the subject of masculinities
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Race and the subject of masculinities
（New Americanists）
Duke University Press, 1997
- : cloth
- : paper
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Includes bibliographical references ([387]-413) and index
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Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity. The essays in Race and the Subject of Masculinities address this concern and focus on the social construction of masculinity-black, white, ethnic, gay, and straight-in terms of the often complex and dynamic relationships among these inseparable categories.
Discussing a wide range of subjects including the inherent homoeroticism of martial-arts cinema, the relationship between working-class ideologies and Elvis impersonators, the emergence of a gay, black masculine aesthetic in the works of James Van der Zee and Robert Mapplethorpe, and the comedy of Richard Pryor, Race and the Subject of Masculinities provides a variety of opportunities for thinking about how race, sexuality, and "manhood" are reinforced and reconstituted in today's society. Editors Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel have gathered together essays that make clear how the formation of masculine identity is never as obvious as it might seem to be. Examining personas as varied as Eddie Murphy, Bruce Lee, Tarzan, Malcolm X, and Andre Gide, these essays draw on feminist critique and queer theory to demonstrate how cross-identification through performance and spectatorship among men of different races and cultural backgrounds has served to redefine masculinity in contemporary culture. By taking seriously the role of race in the making of men, Race and the Subject of Masculinities offers an important challenge to the new studies of masculinity.Contributors. Herman Beavers, Jonathan Dollimore, Richard Dyer, Robin D. G. Kelly, Christopher Looby, Leerom Medovoi, Eric Lott, Deborah E. McDowell, Jose E. Munoz, Harry Stecopoulos, Yvonne Tasker, Michael Uebel, Gayle Wald, Robyn Wiegman
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Michael Uebel 1
I. Reading Men, Reading Race
Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity / Jonathan Dollimore 17
Fiedler and Sons / Robyn Wiegman 45
II. White Like Who?
"As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment / Christopher Looby 71
Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues / Gayle Wald 116
Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification / Leerom Medovoi 138
The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture / Harry Stecopoulos 170
III. Visualizing Race and the Subject of Masculinities
The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II / Robin D. G. Kelley 231
"The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy / Herman Beavers 253
The White Man's Muscles / Richard Dyer 286
Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema / Yvonne Tasker 315
Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston / Jose Munoz 337
IV. Coming After
Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Deborah E. McDowell 361
Works Cited 387
Index 415
Contributors 419
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