Lindquist, Malinda A.

Race, social science and the crisis of manhood, 1890-1970 we are the supermen / [electronic resource] : Malinda Alaine Lindquist. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - x, 244 p. - Routledge studies in African American history and culture ; 1 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-235) and index.

Introduction : inventing the young black male : race, science, and power -- "We are men, the rest are something else" : rewriting social darwinism as a "revelation of the white man" -- "To make a name in science and thus to raise my race" : scientific manhood in the age of Du Bois, 1893-1963 -- "We regarded with pride all the male members of the family" : E. Franklin Frazier from founding fathers and masculine proletariats to the bourgeois "lady among the races" -- Horace Cayton's wars : the race man, psychoanalysis and the politics of black emasculation -- "Boys cannot learn to be men in a manless family" : from class to gender in the black boy crisis, 1940-1965.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






African American men--Race identity.
African American men--Psychology.
African American men--Social conditions--20th century.
Masculinity--United States.
Social sciences--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

E185.625 / .L56 2012

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