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Black male studies (BMS), [1] also known as Black men's studies, [2] [3] Black masculinist studies, [4] African-American male studies, [5] and African-American men's studies, [6] is an area of study within the interdisciplinary field of Black studies [7] [8] [9] that primarily focuses on the study of Black men and boys. [10]
Curry is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. [6] In academic circles, The Man-Not is regarded as controversial for its discussion of the rape of Black males during American slavery by White men and women, its depiction of White feminism as the perfection of patriarchy and American imperialism, and the text's documenting of the rape and domestic ...
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art was a landmark [1] exhibition held at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art from November 10, 1994 until March 5, 1995. Organized by curator Thelma Golden , Black Male was a survey of the changing representations of black masculinity in contemporary art from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity is a 2004 book about masculinity by feminist author bell hooks. It collects ten essays on black men. The title alludes to Gwendolyn Brooks' 1959 poem "We Real Cool". The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies. [1]
Early men's studies scholars studied social construction of masculinity, [12] which the Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell is best known for.. Connell introduced the concept of hegemonic masculinity, describing it as a practice that legitimizes men's dominant position in society and justifies the subordination of the common male population and women, and other marginalized ways of being a man.
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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream (as editor, 1996) Uncollected works "The Pentecostal Bridegroom", in Indiana Review 12.1. Winter 1988. "My Soul is a Witness", in Terry McMillan and John Edgar Wideman (eds), Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction, New York: Viking, 1990.