Race MenWho are the “race men” standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society—and how they exclude women altogether. |
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... Miles Davis and the world of jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s provides the stage for a consideration of an alternative black masculinity performed in his music. Interwoven with this analysis of Davis's life and music is the work ...
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Contents
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2 The Body and Soul of Modernism | 45 |
3 Tuning the American Soul | 87 |
4 Body Lines and Color Lines | 113 |
5 Playin the Changes | 135 |
6 Lethal Weapons and City Games | 169 |
Notes | 193 |
Acknowledgments | 221 |
Index | 223 |