This book examines the social, economic, and cultural factors that have produced the current crisis in African American masculinity, tracing the development of concepts of manhood from pre-colonial West Africa through the Emancipation Proclamation in America. The study begins with an exploration of the cultural context of manhood and the social development of boys into men in West Africa which was based on the rites of passage and the mastery of such social skills as hunting and farming. Enslavement annihilated this unambiguous social status. Denied the possibility of fulfilling the necessary social roles of warrior, husband, father, and protector, African men were forced to redefine manhood, without the benefit of communal discussions. Hence, manhood to many enslaved African American men became an increasingly ambiguous and elusive concept, coupled with problematic notions of sexual performance, absolute patriarchal domination of the household, and the devaluation of commitments that impinge upon a man's independence. Narratives written between 1794 and 1863 reveal that by the end of slavery the concept had become a source of major conflict for African American men. This unique study focuses on the deterioration of the black male concept of manhood in 19th-century America and explores the dilemma of what it means to be black and male in America.
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Prior to large-scale European intrusion, the concept of manhood throughout West African communities was quite unlike the notion possessed by black males in the United States today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black male struggle, black fatherhood, plantation existence, enslaved black men, enslaved fathers, black manhood, fugitive slave bill, slavery experience, enslaved men, free black men, male concept, other black men, warrior tradition, free black man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West African, New York, Narrative of the Life, Twelve Years, African American, The Interesting Narrative, United States, Gustavus Vassa, Oxford University Press, Henry Bibb, Solomon Northup, Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano, Black Cargoes, Ghanian Proverbs, Boyhood Rituals, Daniel Payne, Samuel Ward, Nicholas Owen, Vintage Books, Fugitive Slave Law, John Hope Franklin, South Carolina, The Black Family, West Indies New!
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Prior to large-scale European intrusion, the concept of manhood throughout West African communities was quite unlike the notion possessed by black males in the United States today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black male struggle, black fatherhood, plantation existence, enslaved black men, enslaved fathers, black manhood, fugitive slave bill, slavery experience, enslaved men, free black men, male concept, other black men, warrior tradition, free black man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West African, New York, Narrative of the Life, Twelve Years, African American, The Interesting Narrative, United States, Gustavus Vassa, Oxford University Press, Henry Bibb, Solomon Northup, Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano, Black Cargoes, Ghanian Proverbs, Boyhood Rituals, Daniel Payne, Samuel Ward, Nicholas Owen, Vintage Books, Fugitive Slave Law, John Hope Franklin, South Carolina, The Black Family, West Indies New!
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- Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization) by Solomon Northup on 7 pages
- The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Olaudah Equiano on 6 pages
- From Slavery Freedom--Volume Two by John Hope Franklin on 6 pages
- Black Cargoes by Daniel P. Mannix on 4 pages
- Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins on page 131, page 134, and Back Matter
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- Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities by Johnnetta B. Cole in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- What's Love Got to Do With It?: Understanding and Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women by Donna Franklin in Back Matter
- Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930 (Gender and American Culture) by Martin Summers in Back Matter
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