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Book SynopsisAlthough in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity, have largely been ignored. This title includes essays that address this concern and focus on the social construction of masculinity.
Trade Review"These essays are well researched, beautifully contextualized in relation to previous work in pertinent fields, and engagingly written.
Race and the Subject of Masculinities will be extremely useful to scholars and critics working in gender studies."—Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 / José Muñoz 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
