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The fate of 68 : when the new left was old -- The new cosmopolitanism : the color-blind club -- Nation time : liberal nationalism as social theory and literary history -- Public image limited : the new black intellectuals -- The first boomer : Bill Clinton, George W., and fictions of state -- After identity, politics : Seattle, globalization, and the return of universalism -- Anti-American studies : 9/11, patriotism, and the nation-state

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Men in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- I. READING MEN, READING RACE -- Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity -- Fiedler and Sons -- II. WHITE LIKE WHO? -- "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment -- Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues -- Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification -- The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture -- All the King's Men: Elvis Impersonators and White Working-Class Masculinity -- III. VISUALIZING RACE AND THE SUBJECT OF MASCULINITIES -- The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II -- "The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy -- The White Man's Muscles -- Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema -- Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston -- IV. COMING AFTER -- Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities -- Works Cited -- Index -- Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White -- ''The Souls of White Folks'' -- The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness -- White Racial Projects -- The ''Morphing'' Properties of Whiteness -- ''White Devils'' Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit -- Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets -- Perfidious Albion: Whiteness and the International Imagination -- The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the ''Vital Center'' -- How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays -- (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations -- Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of ''Whiteness'' for Activism and the Academy -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index