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Bread, Bullets, and Brotherhood: Masculine Ideologies in the Mid-Century Black Freedom Struggle, 1950-1975

This thesis examines the ways that African Americans in the mid-twentieth century thought about and practiced masculinity. Important contemporary events such as the struggle for civil rights and the Vietnam War influenced the ways that black Americans sought not only to construct masculine identities, but to use these identities to achieve a higher social purpose. The thesis argues that while mainstream American society had specific prescriptions for how men should behave, black Americans were able to select which of these prescriptions they valued and wanted to pursue while simultaneously rejecting those that they found untenable. Masculinity in the mid-century was not based on one thing, but rather was an amalgamation of different ideals that black men (and women) sought to utilize to achieve communal goals of equality, opportunity, and family.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1248506
Date08 1900
CreatorsHarvey, Matt
ContributorsPomerleau, Clark, Wallach, Jennifer, Wise, Michael
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 112 pages, Text
CoverageUnited States, 1950/1975
RightsPublic, Harvey, Matt, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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