Overview
- Contributes rich, original ideas to the nascent and important field of black male studies
- Holds value for scholars and students across a range of fields, primarily (but not limited to) black studies, critical ethnic studies, sociology, and gender and sexuality studies
- Interrogates both the standards set forth by black feminism and the claims levied by the growing field of black male studies
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A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men’s participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guided—and misguided—black men’s efforts to take up black feminism.
Offering a rejoinder to the contemporary study of black men and masculinity in the twenty-first century, Jared Sexton interrogates some of the most common intellectual postures of black men writing about black feminism, ultimately departing from the prevailing discourse on progressive black masculinities. Sexton examines, by contrast, black men’s critical and creative work—from Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep to Jordan Peele’s Get Out— to describe the cultural logic that provides a limited moral impetus to the quest for black male feminism and that might, if reconfigured, prompt an ethical response of an entirely different order.
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Book Title: Black Men, Black Feminism
Book Subtitle: Lucifer's Nocturne
Authors: Jared Sexton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74126-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74125-3Published: 16 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74126-0Published: 06 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 110
Topics: Sociology of Racism, Feminism, Social Theory, Men's Studies, Women's Studies, Ethnicity Studies