Are We Not Men?
Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:4th Mar '99
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Harper's new book explores how various kinds of social difference are negotiated in a number of African-American cultural contexts. Some of his examples originate within the African-American community iteself, but the emphasis of his work is on the effect of the mass media in the larger culture. Harper's examination includes the treatment of anchorman Max Robinson's AIDS-related death; homophobia and chauvinism in the black music industry, television and literature.
...a thoughtful and provocative meditation on the complex status of the African-American male in American society. This book is essential reading for those seeking to understand how race and gender can be bound together into an oppressive set of stereotypes. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr. *
ISBN: 9780195126549
Dimensions: 154mm x 232mm x 19mm
Weight: 386g
272 pages