Manliness and Its Discontents The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 |
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| Author:
| Summers, Martin |
| Series title: | Gender and American Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-5519-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $42.50 |
Book Description:
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In a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.
In a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.