On Black Men

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"A powerful and searing testimony of the fantasies shaping the lives of black men." -- Hazel Carby, Yale University

"Provocative and original.... A must-read." -- Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex

Book Description

Mutilated, dying, or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be. This book explores the legacy of that role, particularly its violent effect on how black men have learned to see themselves and one another. David Marriott draws upon popular culture, ranging from lynching photographs to current Hollywood film, as well as the ideas of key thinkers, including Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and John Edgar Wideman, to reveal a vicious pantomime of unvarying reification and compulsive fascination, of whites looking at themselves through images of black desolation, and of blacks dispossessed by that process.

On Black Men

On Black Men,David Marriott,Columbia University Press,0231122276,African American men,African American men in popula,African American men in popular culture,American - Hispanic American,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Men's Studies - General,Psychology,Racism,Social Science,Social conditions,Sociology,Black studies,Men's studies,Popular culture,Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory,Racism & racial discrimination,USA

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