The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
This theoretical study challenges existing accounts of Black masculinity and argues for understanding Black men not simply as power holders but as subjects exposed to violence and vulnerability. It frames Black Male Studies through race, class, and gender.
Work Information
It reframes debates on Black masculinity through vulnerability rather than domination.
Published by Temple University Press, the book challenges assumptions in feminist theory and social science and rethinks Black men’s death, violence, sexual victimization, and social position.
Review Summaries
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The book is received as provocative but consequential. Its argument about Black male vulnerability outside familiar gender-theory frames has generated strong debate.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Temple Univ Pr
- Published
- 2017-07-01
- Pages
- 286 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781439914854
- ISBN-10
- 1439914850
- Price
- 17026 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Gender Studies/Men
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.
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 T he Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization.
Reviews
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A vital but depressing book
Since the late 60s I have been pondering why black men suffered a special form of oppression? When I became a grandparent of a black little boy I wondered why he was targeted for harsh treatment for just being a boy.? Even a spell in the Trotskyist left offered no answers. This book has been an import missing key to this mystery but makes for grim reading!
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Groundbreaking & Trailblazing Theoretical Conceptualization of Black Males in a World of Racism (White Supremacy)!
Dr. Tommy Curry in this groundbreaking research on Black males sojourning in a world that is antithetical to their existence, has become the Father of Black Male Studies. He has provided a theoretical framework that challenges feminist and racist theories that seek to incarcerate the understanding of Black males within the confines of White male patriarchy. He provides an ideological lens that provides Black males with keys to self discovery that far exceeds the boundaries imposed on them by a world set on their non-being. Dr. Curry gives voice to the voiceless Black males who not only find themselves dominated by white supremacist, but also the programmed and brainwashed thoughts, speech, and actions of others who mirror himself. The Man-Not is spot-on terminology for the existence of Black males who find themselves born into a world that makes of them monsters and monstrosities from birth, to the cradle, to the grave. In courageously taking on the arduous task of charting a course for Black male theoretical thought about his own existential experiences in a world of white supremacy, Dr. Curry has no doubt become a drum major for Justice. His life work will inevitably help to solve the age old race problem that vehemently opposes the coming into fruition of Truth, Justice, Love, & Correctness that is necessary for the realization of Peace in the earth amid the affairs of humanity and all things. This work is the stuff of Universal logic that will help end the system of white supremacy and replace it with what Neely Fuller, Jr. espouses as a system of Justice. A just system that guarantees that no person is ever dominated or mistreated or allowed to be. A just system that guarantees that the person that needs help the most, receives the most constructive help. I am personally grateful for this monumental work, as it comes at a time in my academic journey wherein I am completing my doctoral thesis/dissertation entitled, “The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Avoiding the First Steps”. The Man-Not lends much credence to my research that reveals Black males as most adversely impacted by this phenomenon. Many of the truths spoken herein, confirms and affirms the need to give voice to theory that presents a true depiction of the root cause analysis of Black male incarceration and death. Thank you Dr. Curry. I’m eternally indebted to your scholarship and life work. Cleo D. White, Sr.
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parfait
C'est parfait.
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Classic
Classic!
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Magnificent.
Very insightful, brilliant book! This book really nuances all kinds of assumptions.