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Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity »

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Authors: Bryant Keith Alexander, Bryant Keith Alexander
ISBN-13: 9780759109285, ISBN-10: 0759109281
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Bryant Keith Alexander

Book Synopsis

Alexander's linked essays on the African American male experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction : exploring modalities and subjectivities that shape social relations
1Crossing borders and changing customs : moments when the spectator becomes the spectacle1
2Placement and displacement of black identity : the case of migration across borders from campus to community33
3Passing, cultural performance, and individual agency : performative reflections on black masculine identity69
4(Re)visioning the ethnographic site : interpretive ethnography, performing drag, and feminist pedagogy99
5Fading, twisting, and weaving : an interpretive ethnography of the black barbershop/salon as cultural space135
6"Were/are, Fort/Da" : the eulogy as constitutive (auto)biography (or, traveling to coalesce a public memory)161

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