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

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations Series UNC Press law publications Civil rights and social justice 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." Summary 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 into assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 30, 2021) Subject 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 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. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004019092 ISBN 080787633X 9780807876336

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