Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity - Paperback

by Bryant Keith Alexander (Author)

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.

Author Biography

Bryant Keith Alexander teaches in the departments of Communication and Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.