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Author:

Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956-

Title:

Manning the race : reforming Black men in the Jim Crow era / Marlon B. Ross.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xii, 463 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American men--Social conditions--20th century.
African American men--Race identity.
African American men--Sexual behavior.
Masculinity--United States--History--20th century.
Homosexuality--History--United States--History--20th century.
Sex role--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
African American men--Intellectual life.
African American men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-440) and index.

Contents:

Un/sexing the race : modernizing and marketing the new world Negro -- The cool pose of racial trespassing : new Negro personal narrative as Jim Crow realism -- New Negro social science : sexual deviance, Black male professionalization, and the sociology of containment -- Civilizing acts : the sexual appeals of patronage in new Negro political organizing -- Midwifing the renaissance : prostitution, same-sexuality, and the procreative logic of patronage -- Waging urban warfare : violence, fraternity, and eroticism in Black men's urban folk narrative -- Unromantically inclined : female protagonists and the resistance to dominant masculinity.

Series:

Sexual cultures

ISBN:

9780814775622 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0814775624 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53485364

LCCN:

2003025044

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)