Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

ISBN-13: 9781108423984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

David Stefan Doddington

Opis

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Recenzje

'Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South expands the conversation surrounding enslaved masculinity and spurs new inquiries into the intersection of race and gender.' Rachel McManimen, North Carolina Historical Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Are you men?'; 1. 'If I had my life to live over, I would die fighting rather than be a slave again': resistance, manhood, and survival in slavery; 2. 'The best amongst them was picked for that job': authority, discipline, and masculinity; 3. 'I never seen such a worker as my father': work, industry, and masculinity; 4. 'He am big and 'cause he so he think everybody do what him say': manhood, sex, and power; 5. “The best man whipped and the other one took it”: violence, leisure, and masculinity; Conclusion: contesting slave masculinity; Bibliography; Index.