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Overview"Who are the ""race men"" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of The Souls of Black Folk reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois applied to racial achievement and advancement--a code that remains implicitly but firmly in place today in the work of celebrated African American male intellectuals. The career of Paul Robeson, the music of Huddie Ledbetter, and the writings of C. L. R. James on cricket and on the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L'Ouverture, offer further evidence of the social and political uses of representations of black masculinity. In the music of Miles Davis and the novels of Samuel R. Delany, Carby finds two separate but related challenges to conventions of black masculinity. Examining Hollywood films, she traces through the career of Danny Glover the development of a cultural narrative that promises to resolve racial contradictions by pairing black and white men--still leaving women out of the picture. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hazel V. CarbyPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.10cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.10cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780674004047ISBN 10: 0674004043 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 15 November 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction The Souls of Black Men The Body and Soul of Modernism Tuning the American Soul Body Lines and Color Lines Playin' the Changes Lethal Weapons and City Games Notes Acknowledgments IndexReviewsHazel Carby has been at the cutting edge of African American studies ever since her landmark 1980 essay on early black woman writers and the blues helped many dyed-in-the-wool literary critics see the importance of the vernacular in black culture. Race Men , her intelligent and timely study of black public figures from W. E. B. Du Bois to Danny Glover, is often rightly acerbic especially when describing the machismo underpinning the work of Miles Davis, the disturbing racial implications of the Lethal Weapon series, or the stuffed-shirted public position of Cornel West (literally as he prescribes a dress code for black intellectuals)... Race Men reveals many insights in its groundbreaking investigation of the usually unspoken symbiosis of race and masculinity, but it is only the opening salvo in a discussion which will run and run. -- Alan Rice New Formations Author InformationHazel V. Carby is Chair of African and African American Studies and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist and Cultures in Babylon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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