Harry Stecopolous is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Michael Uebel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

"These essays are well researched, beautifully contextualized in relation to previous work in pertinent fields, and engagingly written. Race and the Subject of Masculinities will be extremely useful to scholars and critics working in gender studies."-Phillip Brian Harper, New York University

• Acknowledgments viiMen in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Michael Uebel 1I. Reading Men, Reading Race Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity / Jonathan Dollimore 17Fiedler and Sons / Robyn Wiegman 45II. White Like Who? "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment / Christopher Looby 71Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues / Gayle Wald 116Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification / Leerom Medovoi 138The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture / Harry Stecopoulos 170III. Visualizing Race and the Subject of Masculinities The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II / Robin D. G. Kelley 231"The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy / Herman Beavers 253The White Man's Muscles / Richard Dyer 286Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema / Yvonne Tasker 315Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston / JosÉ MuÑoz 337IV. Coming After Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Deborah E. McDowell 361Works Cited 387Index 415Contributors 419

Harry Stecopolous is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Michael Uebel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

"These essays are well researched, beautifully contextualized in relation to previous work in pertinent fields, and engagingly written. Race and the Subject of Masculinities will be extremely useful to scholars and critics working in gender studies."-Phillip Brian Harper, New York University

• Acknowledgments viiMen in Color: Introducing Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Michael Uebel 1I. Reading Men, Reading Race Desire and Difference: Homosexuality, Race, Masculinity / Jonathan Dollimore 17Fiedler and Sons / Robyn Wiegman 45II. White Like Who? "As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire": Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment / Christopher Looby 71Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues / Gayle Wald 116Reading the Blackboard: Youth, Masculinity, and Racial Cross-Identification / Leerom Medovoi 138The World According to Normal Bean: Edgar Rice Burroughs's Popular Culture / Harry Stecopoulos 170III. Visualizing Race and the Subject of Masculinities The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II / Robin D. G. Kelley 231"The Cool Pose": Intersectionality, Masculinity, and Quiescence in the Comedy and Films of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy / Herman Beavers 253The White Man's Muscles / Richard Dyer 286Fists of Fury: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Martial Arts Cinema / Yvonne Tasker 315Photographies of Mourning: Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van Der Zee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston / JosÉ MuÑoz 337IV. Coming After Pecs and Reps: Muscling in on Race and the Subject of Masculinities / Deborah E. McDowell 361Works Cited 387Index 415Contributors 419