The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

by Tommy J. Curry
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

by Tommy J. Curry

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Overview

The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD

Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines.

Curry argues that Black men struggle with death and suicide, as well as abuse and rape, and their genred existence deserves study and theorization. This book offers intellectual, historical, sociological, and psychological evidence that the analysis of patriarchy offered by mainstream feminism (including Black feminism) does not yet fully understand the role that homoeroticism, sexual violence, and vulnerability play in the deaths and lives of Black males. Curry challenges how we think of and perceive the conditions that actually affect all Black males.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439914861
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 07/01/2017
Edition description: 1
Pages: 306
Sales rank: 282,237
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair (Distinguished Professorship) of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the past president of Philosophy Born of Struggle, and the recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation 2016-2017 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellowship. He is the author of Another White Man's Burden: Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire and the editor of The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Genre Study of Black Male Death and Dying: Addressing the Caricatures that Serve as Theory in the Study of Black Males 1

1 On Mimesis and Men: Toward a Historiography of the Man-Not; or, the Ethnological Origins of the Primal Rapist 39

2 Lost in a Kiss? The Sexual Victimization of the Black Male during Jim Crow Read through Eldridge Cleaver's The Book of Lives and Soul on Ice 73

3 The Political Economy of Niggerdom: Racist Misandry, Class Warfare, and the Disciplinary Propagation of the Super-predator Mythology 104

4 Eschatological Dilemmas: Anti-Black Male Death, Rape, and the Inability to Perceive Black Males' Sexual Vulnerability under Racism 137

5 In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope and the Reality of Anti-Black (Male) Death that Demands Our Theorization of the Anti-ethical 165

Conclusion: Not MAN but Not Some Nothing: Affirming Who I Cannot Be through a Genre Study of Black Male Death and Dying 197

Epilogue: Black, Male, and (Forced to Remain) Silent: Censorship and the Subject/Subject Dilemma in Disciplinary Conceptualizations of the Black Male 229

Acknowledgments 235

Notes 237

Index 275

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