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Subject(s)

• African American men—Social conditions [Browse]
• African American men—Intellectual life [Browse]
• African Americans—Race identity [Browse]
• Gay men—United States—Identity [Browse]
• Gender identity—United States [Browse]
• Performance [Browse]
• Critical pedagogy [Browse]
• Alexander, Bryant Keith 1963- [Browse]

Series

Crossroads in qualitative inquiry. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book is a set of essays on the African American male experience. Bryant Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity - the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity through autoethnography and performance."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-249) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : exploring modalities and subjectivities that shape social relations
• 1. Crossing borders and changing customs : moments when the spectator becomes the spectacle
• 2. Placement and displacement of black identity : the case of migration across borders from campus to community / Bryant Alexander and Javon L. Johnson
• 3. Passing, cultural performance, and individual agency : performative reflections on black masculine identity
• 4. (Re)visioning the ethnographic site : interpretive ethnography, performing drag, and feminist pedagogy
• 5. Fading, twisting, and weaving : an interpretive ethnography of the black barbershop/salon as cultural space
• 6. "Were/are, Fort/Da" : the eulogy as constitutive (auto)biography (or, traveling to coalesce a public memory).

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ISBN

• 0759109281 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 075910929X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006006127

International Article Number

• 9780759109285
• 9780759109292

RCP

C - S

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