Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0759114188
- ISBN-13
- 9780759114180
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-07-24
- Publisher
- Rowman Altamira
- Author
- Bryant Keith Alexander
Description
This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.
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