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, 1750-1870

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Darlene Clark Hine, Earnestine L. Jenkins
Indiana University Press, Oct 22, 1999 - Social Science - 624 pages

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

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 Cour
227
EIGHT Peter Hill the First African American Clockmaker
252
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

AfricanAmerican Chimney
274
NINETEENTHCENTURY
303
Manhood and Mission
322
James P Thomas
340
Black Seamen in
354
TWENTYTWO Black Troops in the Army of the James
532
A Symbol of Blacks
550
SOURCES
565
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About the author (1999)

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.

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