Masculinity in the Black Imagination: Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood New edition

Jackson (U. of Illinois, Urbana) and Hopson (George Mason U.), leading scholars of black identity and intercultural communication, point to the case of Professor Henry Gates' arrest at his own home as a suspected burglar as an example of how black males are routinely stereotyped and treated regardless of credentials or status. In imaginatively promoting liberation from pathologized blackness, plural black masculinities, and finding one's "voice," contributors to 13 chapters draw on the history of the US and other countries who have practiced White supremacy, interviews relating to gender and race performance, studies of pop culture and black fraternities, and autoethnographic narratives Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)