Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river.
Series:
Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations ; v. 1
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