I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement by Estes, Steve
I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement by Estes, Steve

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender...
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I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement by Estes, Steve

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

$144.40
I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement by Estes, Steve

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

$144.40
Author: Steve Estes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be.

Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality. Estes begins with an analysis of the role of black men in World War II and then examines the segregationists, who demonized black male sexuality and galvanized white men behind the ideal of southern honor. He then explores the militant new models of manhood espoused by civil rights activists such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and groups such as the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Black Panther Party.

Reliance on masculinist organizing strategies had both positive and negative consequences, Estes concludes. Tracing these strategies from the integration of the U.S. military in the 1940s through the Million Man March in the 1990s, he shows that masculinism rallied men to action but left unchallenged many of the patriarchal assumptions that underlay American society.



Author: Steve Estes
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/14/2005
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780807855935


Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 05/01/2006 pg. 73

About the Author
Estes, Steve: - Steve Estes is assistant professor of history at Sonoma State University.
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