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Author:   Malinda Alaine Lindquist
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415517430

ISBN 10:   0415517435
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Inventing the Young Black Male: Race, Science, and Power 1. ""We are men, the rest are something else"": Rewriting Social Darwinism as a ""Revelation of the White Man"" 2. ""To make a name in science … and thus to raise my race"": Scientific Manhood in the Age of Du Bois, 1893-1963 3. ""We regarded with pride all the male members of the family"": E. Franklin Frazier from Founding Fathers and Masculine Proletariats to the Bourgeois ""Lady among the Races"" 4. Horace Cayton’s Wars: The Race Man, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Black Emasculation 5. ""Boys cannot learn to be men in a manless family"": From Class to Gender in the Black Boy Crisis, 1940-1965 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index"

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<p> Melinda Lindquist 's Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood is an exceptional piece of scholarship, and an important contribution to the fields of African American history, social science history, and gender studies. Samuel Roberts, Columbia University, USA

Melinda Lindquist's Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood is an exceptional piece of scholarship, and an important contribution to the fields of African American history, social science history, and gender studies. -- Samuel Roberts, Columbia University, USA

Author Information

Malinda Alaine Lindquist is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches U.S., African American, gender, and intellectual history. She is currently working on two new projects -- a history of Du Bois and the American social-science tradition, and a history of black youth during the era of Jim Crow.

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