Author : Bryant Keith Alexander
Release : 2006-07-24
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performing Black Masculinity by : Bryant Keith Alexander
Download or read book Performing Black Masculinity written by Bryant Keith Alexander. This book was released on 2006-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.