Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served—controversially—as models and foils for black masculine competence.\ Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro;...
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Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served—controversially—as models and foils for black masculine competence. Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro; the sexual politics of autobiography in the post-emancipation generation; the emergence of black male sociology; sexual rivalry and networking in biracial uplift institutions; Negro Renaissance arts patronage; and the sexual construction of the black urban folk novel. Focusing on the overlooked dynamics of symbolic fraternity, intimate friendship, and erotic bonding within and across gender, Manning the Race is the first book to integrate same-sexuality into the cultural history of black manhood. By approaching black manhood as a culturally contested arena, this important new work reveals the changing meanings and enactments of race, gender, nation, and sexuality in modern America. Manning the Race opens new approaches to the study of black manhood in relation to U.S. culture. Where previous books tended to emphasize how individual black men's identities have been reactively informed by the U.S. regime of race and sexuality, Manning the Race makes the case for understanding how black men themselves have been primary agents and subjects in formulating the identity and practices of black manhood.
ITrespassing the color line : aggressive mobility, sexual transgression, and racial consolidation in new negro movements151Un/sexing the race : modernizing and marketing the new world negro21Migratory mobility and the sexually assertive race tract : Chesnutt and Pickens26Staging the race : verbal display in Du Bois and Washington41The arrested gaze : the race album and the fraternal look of the new world negro61The inner genius of new negrodom : the aesthetics of modernity in Locke's New negro772The cool pose of racial trespassing : new negro personal narrative as Jim Crow realism90Defending manhood as new negro weapon : Pickens's Bursting bonds94Sissy heroics : Walter White's Fire in the flint105The black body as uplift instruemnt : the personal narratives of Ida B. Wells and Taylor Gordon1203New negro social science : sexual deviance, black male professionalization, and the sociology of containment145The migratory nether world : the "submerged tenth" in Du Bois's sociology of surveillance149The black male sociologist as chivalrous Christian mediator : George Edmund Haynes162The social accommodations of Chicago sociology in Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier166Between the lines of Drake and Cayton's Black metropolis186IINegotiating racial uplift : gender rivalry and erotic longing in the making of new negro patronage1934Civilizing acts : the sexual appeals of patronage in new negro political organizing200The machinery of patronage204Mothering the race : the white woman as race patron225Tutoring "the lady of the races" : the ambivalent attraction of the white male patron2385Midwifing the renaissance : prostitution, same-sexuality, and the procreative logic of patronage252Tropes of affiliation : theorizing the sexual subtexts of renaissance patronage253The false(tto) accent of white bothemianism : McKay's patronage attack267Godmothering and the psychic traps of race patronage281"Pussy-footing" Dr. Locke : masculine networking as (homo)racial contest284III"A city jungle this" : footloose desire and the sexual underworlds of Harlem renaissance fiction3016Waging urban warfare : violence, fraternity, and eroticism in black men's urban folk narrative309Rudolph Fisher's moderated manhood315Reforming martial and marital values of manhood in McKay's Home to Harlem330Pals and lovers : companions and men-loving men in the urban folk novel3377Unromantically inclined : female protagonists and the resistance to dominant masculinity355Mobile heroines : the female-centered precursors of urban folk fiction357The quicksand of black feminine desire363Same-sexuality, sadomasochism, and feminine rebellion in Thurman's Blacker the berry379
\ From the Publisher"This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life."\ -CHOICE,\ "In this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, Manning the Race is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation."\ -Valerie Smith,Princeton University\ "An ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s."\ -GC Advocate,\ \ \
