TY - BOOK AU - Steven Cureton PY - 2019 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781433154881 TI - The Social Construction of Black Masculinity T2 - An Ethnographic Study DO - 10.3726/b13348 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056875 N2 - 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. LA - English ER -