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

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.

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

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