![]() | Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Subjects: African American men in popular culture -- Southern States; African American men in literature; African American men in motion pictures; Popular music -- Southern States; Popular culture -- Southern States; Masculinity -- Southern States; Sex role -- Sout; 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 Riché Richardson, blacks themselves appropriate these images for purposes never intended by their (mostly) white progenitors. RICHÉ RICHARDSON is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis. |
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