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african
African diaspora studies
African Male
African Men
Author_Daniel P. Black
Black Male
black male identity crisis in America
Black Men
Bosom Friend
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Category=JHM
communities
concept
Enslaved African
Enslaved African American
Enslaved African Men
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fatherhood
free
Free Black Male
Free Black Man
Fugitive Slave Bill
gender identity formation
Gustavus Vassa
historical trauma analysis
Ivory Coast
Kunta Kinte
male
males
masculinity in literature
men
Middle Passage
Plantation Existence
Pre-colonial West
Pre-colonial West Africa
race and cultural identity
Traditional West African
venture
west
West African
West African Communities
West African Concept
West African Manhood
West African social structures
White America
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815328575
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Graham Hodges Colgate University
