A Question of Manhood, Volume 1: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity, "Manhood Rights": The Construction of Black Male History and Manhood, 1750-1870Darlene Clark Hine, Earnestine Jenkins Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. 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. |
Contents
Toward a Gendered Perspective | 1 |
ANCESTRAL BLACK MALE | 59 |
A Free Black | 90 |
THREE African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion JOHN | 115 |
FOUR Slave Runaways in Colonial North Carolina 1748 | 130 |
Patriot and Tory SIDNEY KAPLAN | 165 |
NEGOTIATING OUR LABOR | 203 |
SEVEN Skilled Blacks in Antebellum St Marys County | 227 |
Black Manhood | 382 |
Philadelphias Banneker | 399 |
REPRESENTATION OF BLACK | 415 |
SEVENTEEN The Rape Myth in the Old South Reconsidered | 438 |
Blacks and the U S Army in | 473 |
TAKING FREEDOM BLACK | 487 |
Adversity | 502 |
TWENTYONE To Come Forward and Aid in Putting Down | 517 |
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