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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South - From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Paperback)
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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South - From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Paperback)
Series: New Southern Studies
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This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we
underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black
masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of
black men - often contradictory ones - have emerged from the
ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. Are black men
emasculated and submissive or hypersexed and violent? Nostalgic
representations of black men have arisen as well: think of the
philosophical, hardworking sharecropper or the abiding, upright
preacher. To complicate matters, says Riche Richardson, blacks
themselves appropriate these images for purposes never intended by
their (mostly) white progenitors. Starting with such well-known
caricatures as the Uncle Tom and the black rapist, Richardson
investigates a range of pathologies of black masculinity that
derive ideological force from their associations with the South.
Military policy, black-liberation discourse, and contemporary rap,
she argues, are just some of the instruments by which egregious
pathologies of black masculinity in southern history have been
sustained. Richardson's sources are eclectic and provocative,
including Ralph Ellison's fiction, Charles Fuller's plays, Spike
Lee's films, Huey Newton's and Malcolm X's political rhetoric, the
O.J. Simpson discourse, and the music production of Master P, the
Cash Money Millionaires, and other Dirty South rappers. Filled with
new insights into the region's role in producing hierarchies of
race and gender in and beyond their African American contexts, this
new study points the way toward more epistemological frameworks for
southern literature, southern studies, and gender studies.
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