Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction / Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine Part One: Constructing Citizenship: The Evolution of Black Male Leadership 1. "Your Old Father Abe Lincoln is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot after 1866 / Kevin Hardwick 2. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Caroline: A Collective Study / William Hine 3. The Freedman's Bureau and Local Black Leadership / Richard Lowe 4. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen / Gary Kremer Part Two: "To Own Our Own Labor": Black Men, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Working Class Consciousness 5. Black Policemen in New Orleans during Reconstruction / Dennis Rousey 6. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter 7. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 / Manning Marable 8. "Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down": The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 / Eric Arnesen 9. A Constant Struggle between Interest and Humanity: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the Old South / Alex Lichtenstein Part Three: Black Men, the Professions, and Fraternal Organisations 10. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Caroline, 1868-1915 / R. J. Oldfield 11. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 / Todd Savitt 12. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood / Vicki Howard 13. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States / Betty Kuyk Part Four: Proving Black Manhood: The Allure of Sport and the Military in the Late 19th Century 14. "Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship": A Black Athlete's Struggle against the Late Nineteenth Century Color Line / David K. Wiggins 15. The Black Bicycle Corps / Marvin Fletcher 16. African Americans and the War against Spain / Piero Gleijeses Part Five: End of the Century Archetypes: Symbolic Constructions in Black Manhood and Masculinity 17. The Anatomy of Lynching / Robyn Wiegman 18. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry / Brett Williams 19. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth / George Eberhart 20. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglas as Representative / Wilson Moses Sources Selected Bibliography Index

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First anthology on the construction of Black masculinities and Black men's history.