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 lev

In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the

This book consists of a range of essays written by historians and literary critics which examine the historical construction of Southern masculinities, rich and

Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers lite

Black masculinity is the first comprehensive study by a sociologist (himself a black man) of the role of Afro-American men in the U.S.A.