{"product_id":"constructing-the-black-masculine-9780822328698","title":"Constructing the Black Masculine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's 'Epistemology of the Closet'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”—Phillip Brian Harper, author of \u003ci\u003eAre We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, \u003ci\u003eConstructing the Black Masculine\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach.”—Nellie McKay, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Spectagraphia \u003cbr\u003e 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: No Hiding Place \u003cbr\u003e 2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 \u003cbr\u003e 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography \u003cbr\u003e 4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being \u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Looking B(l)ack \u003cbr\u003e 5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues \u003cbr\u003e 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s \u003ci\u003eVanishing Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Skin White Masks\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406029496663,"sku":"9780822328698","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822328698.jpg?v=1730494299","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-the-black-masculine-9780822328698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}