Performing Black Masculinity Race, Culture, and Queer Identity

by Alexander, Bryant Keith

• ISBN13: 9780759109285
• ISBN10: 0759109281
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-24
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Alexander's linked essays on the African American male experience.

Author Biography

Bryant Keith Alexander is associated faculty in the departments of communication, liberal studies, and theatre studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He currently serves as the acting dean of the College of Arts and Letters

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Exploring Modalities and Subjectivities That Shape Social Relations	xiii
1 Crossing Borders and Changing Customs: Moments When the Spectator Becomes the Spectacle	1	(32)
2 Placement and Displacement of Black Identity: The Case of Migration across Borders from Campus to Community assisted by Javon. L. Johnson	33	(36)
3 Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity	69	(30)
4 (Re)Visioning the Ethnographic Site: Interpretive Ethnography, Performing Drag, and Feminist Pedagogy	99	(36)
5 Fading, Twisting, and Weaving: An Interpretive Ethnography of the Black Barbershop/Salon as Cultural Space	135	(26)
6 "Were/Are, Fort/Da": The Eulogy as Constitutive (Auto)biography (or, Traveling to Coalesce a Public Memory)	161	(28)
Notes	189	(28)
References	217	(34)
Index	251	(6)
About the Author	257