Marlon B Ross

Sissy Insurgencies

A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

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Produktbeschreibung

Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015215
• ISBN-10: 1478015217
• Artikelnr.: 61330612

Autorenporträt

Marlon B. Ross is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era and The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Preamble. Sissies Everywhere  ix
1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent?  1
2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of
Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee  51
3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's
Sissy Narratives  111
4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics  165
5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black
Sissy  233
6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 
283
Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy?  343
Notes  349
Bibliography  403
Index  433