I am a man!: race, manhood, and the civil rights movement
Auteur :
Estes, Steve
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9780807855935
Date de publication :
14 mars 2005
Dimensions :
23,9 x 16,0 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
390 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This explores key groups, leaders and events in the civil rights movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. He demonstrates that both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality.