Manhood rights : the construction of black male history and manhood, 1750-1870
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Manhood rights : the construction of black male history and manhood, 1750-1870
(Blacks in the diaspora, . A question of manhood : a reader in U.S. Black men's history and masculinity / edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins ; v. 1)
Indiana University Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-577) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780253213433
Description
Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American culture and community.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine
Part One: Constructing Citizenship: The Evolution of Black Male Leadership
1. "Your Old Father Abe Lincoln is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot after 1866 / Kevin Hardwick
2. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Caroline: A Collective Study / William Hine
3. The Freedman's Bureau and Local Black Leadership / Richard Lowe
4. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen / Gary Kremer
Part Two: "To Own Our Own Labor": Black Men, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Working Class Consciousness
5. Black Policemen in New Orleans during Reconstruction / Dennis Rousey
6. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter
7. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 / Manning Marable
8. "Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down": The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 / Eric Arnesen
9. A Constant Struggle between Interest and Humanity: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the Old South / Alex Lichtenstein
Part Three: Black Men, the Professions, and Fraternal Organizations
10. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Caroline, 1868-1915 / R. J. Oldfield
11. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 / Todd Savitt
12. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood / Vicki Howard
13. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States / Betty Kuyk
Part Four: Proving Black Manhood: The Allure of Sport and the Military in the Late 19th Century
14. "Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship": A Black Athlete's Struggle against the Late Nineteenth Century Color Line / David K. Wiggins
15. The Black Bicycle Corps / Marvin Fletcher
16. African Americans and the War against Spain / Piero Gleijeses
Part Five: End of the Century Archetypes: Symbolic Constructions in Black Manhood and Masculinity
17. The Anatomy of Lynching / Robyn Wiegman
18. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry / Brett Williams
19. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth / George Eberhart
20. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglas as Representative / Wilson Moses
Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
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: hbk ISBN 9780253336392
Description
"A Question of Manhood" is the first anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. The editors identified these essays from among several hundred articles published in recent years in leading American history journals and academic periodicals. Each piece illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders in both slave and free communities in the centuries and decades prior to the end of slavery in the United States. The introduction offers a gendered perspective on, and a race and class framework for the future study of, Black men's history. The introduction weaves the salient points made in each of the historical essays into a fresh narrative of Black male efforts to construct their individual life and community-sustaining identities.
Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American culture and community.
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