The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072Q2JXW9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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I know. This book is the one that I've been waiting for. Curry has taken a bullet for the brothers."—Ishmael Reed, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts. Those who've dogged and stalked Black men in the academy and popular culture for the past few decades are sure to have their critical knives out. This book is controversial. But it's rare for an American intellectual to step up, regardless of the fallout. "Tommy Curry has written a cool, brilliant defense of the men who are the pariahs of American society: the ones who, regardless of class, find themselves at the bottom of every hierarchy; the ones whose demographics and statistics in terms of the criminal justice, health care, and oth
Curry challenges how we think of and perceive the conditions that actually affect all Black males.. 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. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. Tommy J. Curry’s provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies
"Refreshing, Insightful Game Changer!" according to Nathaniel Davis. Dr. Tommy J Curry has given us a seminal piece of work in "The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood". "The Man-Out" will definitely evoke much discourse, as it positions the Black Male as victim of White male patriarchy, instead of a co-conspirator or the proverbial "man in waiting" posited by some in academia. In "The Man-Not", Curry superbly argues h. INTELLECTUAL AMMUNITION benjamin graves if YOU ARE A SELF RESPECTING , INTELLECTUAL BLACK MAN THIS BOOK IS MANDATORY READING. I WORE OUT 2 HIGHLIGHTERS AND HAVE COPIOUS NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF NEARLY EVERY PAGE. BUY IT. READ IT. ABSORB IT. DR. CURRY METICULOUSLY DESTROYS ANTI BLACK MALE THEORIES SUCH AS INTERSECTIONALITY WITH THE PAINSTAKING PRECISION OF A MASTER SURGEON.. "A great piece of academia" according to Amazon Customer. Very well written and researched. A great piece of academia. This is a must have book for all who seek the reality, not illusion of historical analysis of the plight of Black Men in America.