Race Men

Informationen zum Autor Hazel V. Carby is Chair of African and African American Studies and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist and Cultures in Babylon . Klappentext Who are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects! along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture! Zusammenfassung A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society—and how they exclude women altogether. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Souls of Black Men The Body and Soul of Modernism Tuning the American Soul Body Lines and Color Lines Playin' the Changes Lethal Weapons and City Games Notes Acknowledgments Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hazel V. Carby, Carby Hazel V.
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.11.2000
• EAN: 9780674004047
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00404-7
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures; The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Themen: Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Lexika, Enzyklopädien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Ethnic Studies, Geography, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Social discrimination and equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Gender studies: men and boys, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice