Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930In a pathbreaking 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 organizationa |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Manliness | 17 |
Does Masonry Make Us Better Men? | 25 |
A Spirit of Manliness | 66 |
Our Noble Women and the Coming Generations | 111 |
Discontents | 149 |
Flaming Youth | 155 |
A Man and Artist | 200 |
A Tempestuous Spirit of Rebellion | 242 |
The Respectable and the Damned | 287 |
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