I am a man! : race, manhood, and the civil rights movement /

This explores key groups, leaders and events in the civil rights movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. He demonstrates that both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping int...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Estes, Steve (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
African American men > Attitudes > History > 20th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex role > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sexism > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains > Attitudes > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Hommes noirs américains > Attitudes > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Discours politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Masculinité > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sexisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
African American men > Attitudes
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Masculinity > Political aspects
Race relations
Racism
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Sex role > Political aspects
Sexism
Civil Rights Movement.
Mannelijkheid.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : am I not a man and a brother?
  • Man the guns
  • A question of honor
  • Freedom summer and the Mississippi movement
  • God's angry men
  • The Moynihan report
  • I am a man! : the Memphis sanitation strike
  • "The baddest motherfuckers ever to set foot inside of history"
  • Conclusion : "the heartz of men."

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