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Searching for the New Black Man Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Searching for the New Black Man By Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Searching for the New Black Man by Ronda C. Henry Anthony


Summary

Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power.

Searching for the New Black Man Summary

Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies by Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, Henry Anthony shows how black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably bound up with their complicated relation to white men and normative masculinity. The historical context in which Henry Anthony couches these struggles highlights the extent to which shifting socioeconomic circumstances dictate the ideological, cultural, and emotional terms upon which black men conceptualize identity.

Yet, Henry Anthony quickly moves to texts that challenge traditional constructions of black masculinity. In these texts Henry Anthony traces how the emergence of collaboratively-gendered discourses, or a blending of black female/male feminist consciousnesses, are reshaping black masculinities, femininities, and intraracial relations for a new century.

About Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Ronda C. Henry Anthony, Indianapolis, Indiana, is associate professor of English and Africana studies at Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis.

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NLS9781628461800
9781628461800
1628461802
Searching for the New Black Man: Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies by Ronda C. Henry Anthony
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Paperback
University Press of Mississippi
2014-09-30
192
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