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...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...

...Rinaldo Walcott The attempt to narrate and represent a coherent black masculinity in its singularity is in part what I want to respond to in this essay. But even more, I want to suggest that thinking about a range and variety of black manhoods and masculinities might provide analysts with a set...

... by narratives of nation, state, property, race, and manhood, Carby attends to the life of the commodity, beginning in the nineteenth century with the sexual exploitation of enslaved women and ending in the twentieth century with the coveted consumer objects that signify...

...Harvey Neptune Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...

...Michelle Stephens Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...

... Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood in the Making...

... an implicit conflation of the human with economic Man: individual, entrepreneurial, self-managing. The Men's Forum clearly articulates that not all males are Men. Normative masculinity therefore involves leadership, heterosexuality, and control over women and children. The recovery of Barbadian manhood...

... and progress of the nation and as threatening to Haitian manhood. 38 By the early twentieth century, Alice Colón and Rhoda Reddock argue, these gender ideals were “standards that ran counter to the remembered traditions of the populations of African descent and to the practiced reality of the majority...

...). As shopkeeper, he is read by the community as an exploiter, yet not “thief” enough to satisfy the dominant’s definition of manhood—Cecil criticizes Lowe for not cheating his customers more. Lowe, in turn, misreads the community, believing that blacks burned down the shop (15). Jamaica is a hostile home...

... struggle is that of the world's natives, the wretched of the earth, to reclaim their disputed humanity. The rights of the natives to manhood implies imperatively the negation of the rights of some men to super-manhood” (148). That would be “indigenization” informed and energized by a limited “marronage...

....” 57 Mimi Sheller, “Sword-Bearing Citizens: Militarism and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Haiti,” Plantation Society in the Americas 4, nos. 2–3 (1997): 241–42. 58 This is the close of the play as it has been performed and published, but there is an unpublished and unperformed epilogue...

... .” As a result, “the nationalist project became inseparable from the epistemological issue of defining West Indian manhood.” 69 A few women, such as Edith Clarke and Louise Bennett, produced affecting knowledge and ideas that were perceived to reveal the intricate interiors of Jamaican folk and thus...

...), the generic, racializing term for all people of color, a term formally abolished in 2017 but still circulating. Two effects become clear in her linguistic utterance that speak to the Afro-Surinamese “cultural archive.” First, she was positing Black men as the central and normative setting of manhood...

... Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Over-representation—An Argument,” CR 3, no. 3 (2003): 257–337. 3 Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, “Losing Manhood: Animality and Plasticity in the (Neo)Slave Narrative,” Qui Parle 25, nos. 1–2 (2016): 95...

... 50 Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib Anne McClintock 75 Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity Rinaldo Walcott 90...

... of violence who not only experience sexual and domestic violence but must bury their children and lovers taken by the state or in acts of horizontal violence presumed to secure manhood. 8 Women have been asked to shore up the nation and men in the context of crises of Caribbean nationhood. They are asked...

.... This is what came out: Baba was a black man with no past. He had nothing ahead of him; he had nothing behind him. He had dropped out of oblivion one day, grew up in Montego Bay on the island of Jamaica, growing into manhood with a tremendous lower jaw burgeoning above his windpipe, a jawbone...

.... Moreover, as Valdés seeks to read into Schomburg’s elusive gaze and suggests that this may have been his way of resisting the intrusive camera lens, she also notes how he may have all along been negotiating perhaps an alternate black manhood, respectability, and dignity (134). As such, Diasporic Blackness...

... preconstructed notions of English manhood, that ideal of “strength, vigour and athletic abil- ity. I hope I am not doomed to prove him a mere delusion and a fraud” (133). Laughing, she advises Selwyn: “You are sadly in need of a little travel to enlarge your mind,” neatly turning the tables on the superior...

... to that afternoon, my former mechanic, Marc, and I were having a wide-ranging conversation about pesticides, about food, about hormones and aging. We talked about prostate cancer, about manhood, and about his workout and diet regimen. We talked more about pesticides. We talked about his body. We talked about what...