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Author Summers, Martin Anthony.

Title Manliness and its discontents : the Black middle class and the transformation of masculinity, 1900-1930 / Martin Summers
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender & American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Does masonry make us better men? -- A spirit of manliness -- Our noble women and the coming generations -- Flaming youth -- A man and artist -- A tempestuous spirit of rebellion -- The respectable and the damned
Summary In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject African American men -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Men -- United States -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
African American men -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Masculinity
Men -- Identity
Middle class
Race relations
Sex role
Social conditions
Geschlechterrolle
Schwarze
Soziale Situation
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516
Subject United States
USA
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Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003028252
ISBN 080786417X
9780807864173
9780807828519
0807828513
9780807855195
0807855197
9798890877536