How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? The essays in this collection both ask and att

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President Geo

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820–1945,edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, brings together sc

In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history—from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the

Discusses media portrayals of black men who are outside the expected roles of stock characters and are thus, "illegible" to spectators.