Race and the Subject of Masculinities
In: New Americanists
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