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 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

Discusses media portrayals of black men who are outside the expected roles of stock characters and are thus, "illegible" to spectators.

This vivid evocation of the lives of 32 boys from a Johannesburg township is essential reading for anybody wishing to understand black masculinity in South Afri