
Manliness and Its Discontents
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Manliness and Its Discontents focuses on four distinct yet overlapping social milieus: the fraternal order of Prince Hall Freemasonry; the black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association, or the Garvey movement; the modernist circles of the Harlem Renaissance; and the campuses of historically black Howard and Fisk Universities. Between 1900 and 1930, Summers argues, dominant notions of what it meant to be a man within the black middle class changed from a Victorian ideal of manliness — characterized by the importance of producer values, respectability, and patriarchy — to a modern ethos of masculinity, which was shaped more by consumption, physicality, and sexuality. Summers evaluates the relationships between black men and black women as well as relationships among black men themselves, broadening our understanding of the way that gender works along with class, sexuality, and age to shape identities and produce relationships of power.
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- Cover Page
- Manliness and Its Discontents
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Manliness
- 1 Does Masonry Make Us Better Men?
- 2 A Spirit of Manliness
- 3 Our Noble Women and the Coming Generations
- Two Discontents
- 4 Flaming Youth
- 5 A Man and Artist
- 6 A Tempestuous Spirit of Rebellion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series
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