Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

AvDavid Stefan Doddington,David Stefan (Cardiff University) Doddington

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond unilateral discussions of slave masculinity, and instead demonstrates how the repressions of slavery were both personal and political. Rather than automatically support one another against an emasculatory white society, Doddington explores how enslaved people negotiated identities in relation to one another, through comparisons between men and different forms of manhood held up for judgment. An examination of the framework in which enslaved people crafted identities demonstrates the fluidity of gender as a social and cultural phenomenon that defied monolithic models of black masculinity, solidarity, and victimization. Focusing on work, authority, honor, sex, leisure, and violence, this book is a full-length treatment of the idea of 'masculinity' among slave communities of the Old South.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-19
Mått:151 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies on the American South
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108439244

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

David Stefan Doddington is Lecturer in North American History at Cardiff University. David has received research awards from the British Association of American Studies, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, and British American Nineteenth Century Historians. He has published work in journals such as Gender & History, the Journal of Global Slavery, and is working on a book entitled Writing the History of Slavery (forthcoming).

Recensioner i media

'Doddington's riveting portraits of rebels and resistors, conspirators and collaborators offer nuanced insight into American slavery, as well as refreshing intersectional analysis of race, gender and sexuality. This book provides a powerful portrait of a key era, introducing more complex interpretations of dominance, violence, exploitation and vivid sketches of 'performing manhood' and homosocial subcultures. Doddington's emphasis on multiple hierarchies and competing community values is a welcome addition to this expanding field, enriching our understanding of struggles for those navigating the treacherous terrain of an antebellum slave South.' Catherine Clinton, author of Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Are you men?'; 1. 'If I had my life to live over, I would die fighting rather than be a slave again': resistance, manhood, and survival in slavery; 2. 'The best amongst them was picked for that job': authority, discipline, and masculinity; 3. 'I never seen such a worker as my father': work, industry, and masculinity; 4. 'He am big and 'cause he so he think everybody do what him say': manhood, sex, and power; 5. “The best man whipped and the other one took it”: violence, leisure, and masculinity; Conclusion: contesting slave masculinity; Bibliography; Index.