Performing Black Masculinity by Bryant Keith Alexander - 9780759109285

Performing Black MasculinityRace, Culture, and Queer Identity\nAuthor(s): Bryant Keith Alexander\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: AltaMira Press, United States\nImprint: AltaMira Press\nISBN-13: 9780759109285, 978-0759109285\nSynopsis\nThis is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.