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The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood de Tommy J. Curry

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

Autor Tommy J. Curry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2017

Bazându-ne pe analiza datelor din American Book Award și cercetările din sfera studiilor etnice, descoperim în The Man-Not o lucrare provocatoare care redefinește fundamental modul în care mediul academic raportează identitatea masculină la rasă. Autorul Tommy J. Curry introduce conceptul central de „Man-Not” pentru a argumenta că bărbații de culoare nu ar trebui priviți ca exponenți ai unui patriarhat opresiv, ci mai degrabă ca subiecți vulnerabili, privați de putere și expuși în mod disproporționat violenței, abuzului și mortalității. Considerăm această ediție prima justificare teoretică solidă pentru emergența disciplinei Black Male Studies.

Stilul lucrării este unul riguros, ancorat în dovezi empirice și istorice, menite să corecteze narativele care asociază automat bărbatul de culoare cu dorința de a imita puterea albilor. Tommy J. Curry extinde cadrul propus de Solutions For Anti-Black Misandry, Flat Blackness, and Black Male Death de T. Hasan Johnson, aducând date noi despre modul în care vulnerabilitatea sexuală și homoeroticismul influențează ratele de deces în rândul populației masculine de culoare. Spre deosebire de New Black Man, care caută un model de masculinitate în cadrul feminismului, Curry susține că actualele teorii de gen eșuează în a înțelege specificul ontologic al bărbatului de culoare.

Această lucrare se poziționează ca o continuare critică a temelor abordate în Black Men from behind the Veil, unde autorul investiga percepția bărbaților ca „amenințări” în imaginarul colectiv. În The Man-Not, accentul se mută de la percepția externă la realitatea internă a victimizării și a luptei cu trauma, oferind un instrument esențial pentru studenții și cercetătorii din sociologie și studii culturale care doresc să depășească stereotipurile simpliste.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439914861
ISBN-10: 1439914869
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de sociologie și drepturile omului care doresc să înțeleagă complexitatea identității masculine de culoare dincolo de clișee. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care clasa și rasa interacționează, generând forme specifice de vulnerabilitate. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce teoriile clasice despre patriarhat nu se aplică universal și cum pot fi regândite politicile sociale pentru a proteja grupurile marginalizate.

Despre autor

Tommy J. Curry este un distins profesor de filosofie și studii etnice, laureat al American Book Award în 2018 pentru volumul The Man-Not. Opera sa se concentrează pe filosofia africană, teoria critică a rasei și studiile despre bărbații de culoare. În lucrări precum Black Men from behind the Veil și Reimagining Black Masculinities, Curry a explorat tensiunile dintre spațiul public, capitalismul rasial și identitatea de gen. Expertiza sa integrează perspective din istorie și psihologie, fiind recunoscut pentru modul în care provoacă paradigmele consacrate ale sociologiei contemporane prin cercetări despre ontologia socială și misandria anti-negru.

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The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD

Tommy J. Curry’s provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore,is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines.
Curry argues that Black men struggle with death and suicide, as well as abuse and rape, and their genred existence deserves study and theorization. This book offers intellectual, historical, sociological, and psychological evidence that the analysis of patriarchy offered by mainstream feminism (including Black feminism) does not yet fully understand the role that homoeroticism, sexual violence, and vulnerability play in the deaths and lives of Black males. Curry challenges how we think of and perceive the conditions that actually affect all Black males.

Recenzii

"Tommy Curry has written a cool, brilliant defense of the men who are the pariahs of American society: the ones who, regardless of class, find themselves at the bottom of every hierarchy; the ones whose demographics and statistics in terms of the criminal justice, health care, and other systems are abysmal. Countless billions have been made from the portrayal of Black males as Boogeymen. The Man-Not is heavy work, but the general reader will find its arguments well worth the time and effort. This book is controversial. Those who've dogged and stalked Black men in the academy and popular culture for the past few decades are sure to have their critical knives out. I know. But it's rare for an American intellectual to step up, regardless of the fallout. This book is the one that I've been waiting for. Curry has taken a bullet for the brothers."—Ishmael Reed, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts

"In a bold—indeed, fearless—intervention in the ongoing race/gender/sexual orientation debates, Tommy Curry challenges the cozy consensus among self-conceived progressives in the humanities. The oppression of black men has been conceptually erased, he argues, by theoretical frameworks indifferent to the social science data that refute them. Sure to ignite a firestorm of controversy, The Man-Not is an impassioned protest against orthodoxies, both mainstream and radical, white and black. It is required reading for anyone interested in understanding oppression or having unquestioned assumptions put to the test."
—Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center
 

"The Man-Not introduces a progressive black male studies that is decidedly nonfeminist, and the book demands a radical rethinking of the category of 'gender' itself.... It is impressive to watch Curry build arguments and the seamless manner in which the philosopher moves between sources across disciplines.... (It is) refreshing to read a book that has little time for academic pleasantries and is so eager to transcend the boundaries of traditional gender theorizing.... (R)eaders from diverse academic backgrounds can still learn much in its pages." —Men and Masculinities

"This book reads as a spiritual successor to W.E.B. Dubois's 1906 keynote speech delivered during the second annual Niagara Movement Conference.... Curry echoes the same sentiment that Black men have been subjugated due to systemic violence, denial of rights, and oppression. The author is open and candid that this is as much an emotional book as an academic one.... It is an impassioned plea for justice and legitimation that is often read in books but rarely felt.... The book is an incredible piece of scholarship for Black Male Studies and completely convincing in its claim that there is not only a need for Black Male Studies but a need to study it across multiple disciplines, particularly at the intersection of race, masculinity, law, politics, and class. His ability to deliver scholarship that is part literature review, part critique, part analysis, and part biography makes this book an important piece of work set to help steer Black Male Studies into a new, exciting direction."—Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"Curry offers a provocative discussion of black masculinity by critiquing both the social and academic treatment of killings of black men and boys in the US. The author forces readers to reevaluate the interpretations and stereotypes the media uses. He argues that gender studies has disadvantaged black men by imposing and supporting negative historical stereotypes and ignoring the diversity of black boys and men and by falsely aligning black masculinity with white masculinity.... The present book is an attempt to fill the gap by presenting a philosophical theory on black masculinity that Curry claims is nonexistent in philosophy.... (A)n excellent basis for discussions of the academic constructs of legitimacy in research. Many readers may find this book an uncomfortable read, and that is the very reason it should be read....Summing Up: Highly recommended." —Choice

"The Man-Not is an impressive book, sure to upset scholars invested in static gender theory based on racial myths reproduced in the academy in lieu of empirical debates addressing the impossibility of Black patriarchy amid anti-Black achievement policies that disproportionately affect Black males.... The Man-Not exemplifies the deep, risky criticism that all scholars should aspire to, particularly as Curry’s call for the institutionalization of Black male studies is compelling.... Curry’s argument is contentious yet indispensable amid the oftentimes deadly systemic oppressions that Black males encounter."--Women's Studies in Communication

Notă biografică

Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair (Distinguished Professorship) of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the past president of Philosophy Born of Struggle, and the recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation 2016–2017 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellowship. He is the author of Another White Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire and the editor of The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization.