New Black Man (Tenth Anniversary Edition)

227 Pages·2015·1.429 MB·English

by  Mark Anthony Neal

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Praise for New Black Man
Mark Anthony Neal’s critique of old modes of discussing black
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Michael Awkward, author of N egotiating Difference: Race,
Gender, and the Politics of Positionality
P art academic treatise, part soul-baring memoir, N ew Black
Man is the unlikely offspring of hip-hop and feminism. . . . Neal
offers a call to action by challenging not only the conventional
white powers that be, but also the black men who sanction
inequality by upholding patriarchy and heterosexism.
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This edition published 2015
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2015 Taylor & Francis
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Contents
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Chapter 1
there’s a new black man in america today
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