Black Masculinities in American Social Science and Self-Narratives of the 1960s and 1970s

Aneta Dybska

ISBN 10: 363161330X / ISBN 13: 9783631613306

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2010, 2010

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Neuware -This is a study of black masculinities produced in two distinct bodies of 1960s and 1970s texts: ethnographic accounts of black urban families and black men¿s self-narratives. Those seemingly incompatible genres of writing are treated on a par, as narrative spaces within which social identities are forged and negotiated. Part I of this book offers a critical analysis of social science literature since the mid- to late 1960s. It includes the controversial Moynihan Report, which has been center stage of debates about «black matriarchy», race relations, and social policy, as well as ethnographies by Ulf Hannerz, David A. Schulz, and Kenneth B. Clark. It is against the backdrop of the ethnographic research that Part II investigates discursive continuities as well as ruptures in the articulation of black masculinities in Dick Gregory¿s and Claude Brown¿s narratives of success and counter-hegemonic prison writings by Black Panther Party leaders: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and George Jackson. 194 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Masculinities in American Social Science and Self-Narratives of the 1960s and 1970s
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Sep 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363161330X
• ISBN 13: 9783631613306
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 14D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 370 grams

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Synopsis

This is a study of black masculinities produced in two distinct bodies of 1960s and 1970s texts: ethnographic accounts of black urban families and black men’s self-narratives. Those seemingly incompatible genres of writing are treated on a par, as narrative spaces within which social identities are forged and negotiated. Part I of this book offers a critical analysis of social science literature since the mid- to late 1960s. It includes the controversial Moynihan Report, which has been center stage of debates about «black matriarchy», race relations, and social policy, as well as ethnographies by Ulf Hannerz, David A. Schulz, and Kenneth B. Clark. It is against the backdrop of the ethnographic research that Part II investigates discursive continuities as well as ruptures in the articulation of black masculinities in Dick Gregory’s and Claude Brown’s narratives of success and counter-hegemonic prison writings by Black Panther Party leaders: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and George Jackson.

About the Author

Aneta Dybska is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, where she teaches American culture. Her research interests include African American Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Urban Studies, and Nationalism Studies.