Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity - Softcover

Harper, Phillip Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195126548 ISBN 13: 9780195126549

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1999

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"A thoughtful and provocative meditation on the complex status of the African-American male in American society. This book is essential reading for those seeking to understand how race and gender can be bound together into an oppressive set of stereotypes."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Phillip Brian Harper is Associate Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Framing the Margins.

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In 1995, popular anxieties about black masculinity became evident in public reactions to the conclusion of the OJ Simpson trial and the Million Man March on Washington. The nation's divided response to the OJ verdict, together with the controversy surrounding Louis Farrakhan's call to black men to come together for a "day of atonement", brought issues of race and gender to the forefront of national debate. In his timely and incisive book Are We Not Men? Phillip Brian Harper explores issues of race and representation and shows that ideas about black masculinity have always played a troubled role both in the formation of African-American identity and in the mass media at large. Using examples from a variety of cultural contests, ranging from sports and pop music to literature and television, Harper shows the ways in which narrow definitions of black manhood have failed to acknowledge real differences within the African-American community - to grave social and political effect.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195126548
• ISBN 13: 9780195126549
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
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