David Stefan Doddington

Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenges historical models of black solidarity and reveals how resistance, accommodation, and survival in slavery was shaped by gender, as well as how gendered values were embedded in the structures of enslavement. For students and scholars of American history with interest in slavery, gender, and race.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781108439244
• ISBN-10: 1108439241
• Artikelnr.: 58438604

Autorenporträt

David Stefan Doddington is Lecturer in North American History at Cardiff University. David has received research awards from the British Association of American Studies, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, and British American Nineteenth Century Historians. He has published work in journals such as Gender & History, the Journal of Global Slavery, and is working on a book entitled Writing the History of Slavery (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

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.