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Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American culture and community.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine
Part One: Constructing Citizenship: The Evolution of Black Male Leadership
1. "Your Old Father Abe Lincoln is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot after 1866 / Kevin Hardwick
2. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Caroline: A Collective Study / William Hine
3. The Freedman's Bureau and Local Black Leadership / Richard Lowe
4. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen / Gary Kremer
Part Two: "To Own Our Own Labor": Black Men, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Working Class Consciousness
5. Black Policemen in New Orleans during Reconstruction / Dennis Rousey
6. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter
7. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 / Manning Marable
8. "Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down": The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 / Eric Arnesen
9. A Constant Struggle between Interest and Humanity: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the Old South / Alex Lichtenstein
Part Three: Black Men, the Professions, and Fraternal Organizations
10. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Caroline, 1868-1915 / R. J. Oldfield
11. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 / Todd Savitt
12. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood / Vicki Howard
13. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States / Betty Kuyk
Part Four: Proving Black Manhood: The Allure of Sport and the Military in the Late 19th Century
14. "Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship": A Black Athlete's Struggle against the Late Nineteenth Century Color Line / David K. Wiggins
15. The Black Bicycle Corps / Marvin Fletcher
16. African Americans and the War against Spain / Piero Gleijeses
Part Five: End of the Century Archetypes: Symbolic Constructions in Black Manhood and Masculinity
17. The Anatomy of Lynching / Robyn Wiegman
18. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry / Brett Williams
19. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth / George Eberhart
20. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglas as Representative / Wilson Moses
Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is co-editor of More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, co- author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, and author of Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History.
Earnestine Jenkins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. She has published articles that have appeared in numerous books and journals, including Milestones in Black American History, and Aspects of Ethiopian Art.
Summary
An anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. It highlights an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders in both slave and free communities in the centuries and decades prior to the end of slavery in the US.
