%0 Book %A Steven Cureton %D 2019 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9781433154881 %T The Social Construction of Black Masculinity %B An Ethnographic Study %R 10.3726/b13348 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056875 %X The Social Construction of Black Masculinity examines the legacy of negotiating black masculinity in a relatively free society that forced black men to justify claims of equitable humanity. The book represents an unapologetic narrative about behavioral choices by black men, which were framed by a history of forced distancing from their covenant with God, deliberate character assassinations, and emasculation in plain sight of their women and children. %G English