A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black mens participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic assumptions that have guidedand misguidedblack mens efforts to take up black feminism.
Offering a rejoinder to the contemporary study of black men and masculinity in the twenty-first century, Jared Sexton interrogates some of the most common intellectual postures of black men writing about black feminism, ultimately departing from the prevailing discourse on progressive black masculinities. Sexton examines, by contrast, black mens critical and creative workfrom Charles Burnetts Killer of Sheep to Jordan Peeles Get Out to describe the cultural logic that provides a limited moral impetus to the quest for black male feminism and that might, if reconfigured, prompt an ethical response of an entirely different order.
1. The Devil You Know
2. Where Manhood Lies
3. Unbearable Blackness
Jared Sexton teaches African American Studies and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (2008).?Contributes rich, original ideas to the nascent and important field of black male studies?
Holds value for scholars and students across a range of fields, primarily (but not limited to) black studies, critical ethnic studies, sociology, and gender and sexuality studies
Interrogates both the standards set forth by black feminism and the claims levied by the growing field of black male studies
![Black Men, Black Feminism Lucifer's Nocturne [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/0/5/3/2_1265660.jpg "Black Men, Black Feminism Lucifer's Nocturne [Hardcover] xxx")