Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 : we are the supermen /
Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012
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| Series: | Routledge studies in African American history.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inventing the Young Black Male- Race, Science, and Power; 1. "We are men, the rest are something else": Rewriting Social Darwinism as a "Revelation of the White Man"; 2. "To make a name in science ... and thus to raise my race": Scientifi c Manhood in the Age of Du Bois, 1893-1963; 3. "We regarded with pride all the male members of the family": E. Franklin Frazier from Founding Fathers and Masculine Proletariats to the Bourgeois "Lady among the Races."
- 4. Horace Cayton's Wars: The Race Man, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Black Emasculation5. "Boys cannot learn to be men in a manless family": From Class to Gender in the Black Boy Crisis, 1940-1965; Epilogue: The Moynihan Effect-A Revisionist Histoy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
