Black Masculinity and the U.s. South - From Uncle Tom to Gangsta

Informationen zum Autor RICHÉ RICHARDSON is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Klappentext Presents a study of region! race! and gender that reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. This work is filled with insights into the region's role in producing hierarchies of race and gender in and beyond their African American contexts. Zusammenfassung This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Starting with such well-known caricatures as the Uncle Tom and the black rapist, Richardson investigates a range of pathologies of black masculinity.

Product details

• Authors: Riche Richardson, Riché Richardson
• Assisted by: Jon Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780820328904
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2890-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American