Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945, edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, brings together scholars of history and literature focused on the lives and writing of black men during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. The interdisciplinary study demonstrates the masculine character of cultural practices developed from slavery through segregation. Black masculinity embodies a set of contradictions, including an often mistaken threat of violence, the belief in its legitimacy, and the rhetorical union of truth and fiction surrounding slavery, segregation, resistance, and self-determination.