... that developing progressive black masculinities is consistent with black men's pursuit of racial justice. The chapter is organized as follows. The first part defines progressive black masculinities and briefly summarizes the arguments that support the concept and seek to encourage black men's engagement...

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...This chapter analyzes literal and symbolic examples of human consumption in the antebellum United States. It begins with a discussion of the Essex affair, which involved the consumption of four black men in the nineteenth century. Similar cases during the period involving black men continue...

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... within the conceptual space of the Atlantic world. It also discusses efforts to imagine both Black men and Black women as free in the context of slavery, with particular emphasis on “the black female body and the gaze.” Finally, it locates diverse conceptions of Black freedom in the transatlantic parlor...

...This chapter explains the intersections of gender with race in church life. In the larger society, slavery, poverty, and menial status meant that black men risked being labeled feminine and without power. Thus in the black churches men, not women, took primary place, mimicking the white church's...

... by COGIC, developed in part as a black ritual system of liberation in response to the white ritual system of lynching. It suggests that Mason attempted to ameliorate the emasculation of black men and the disempowerment of the black community by strategically developing rituals of revision that helped black...

... theorize the relation between blackness, abjection, sexuality, and power, the book focuses on scenes of the sexual exploitation or humiliation of black men in novels and essays written by canonical African American authors in the 20th century. With such a focus, it proposes a queer reading of various...

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