A Question of Manhood : A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity

Foreword xi Bill Strickland Preface xv Darlene Clark Hine Earnestine Jenkins Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1(14) Earnestine Jenkins Darlene Clark Hine PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING CITIZENSHIP: THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK MALE LEADERSHIP ``Your Old Father Abe Lincoln Is Dead and Damned'': Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot of 1866 15(21) Kevin R. Hardwick Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Carolina: A Collective Study 36(26) William C. Hine The Freedmen's Bureau and Local Black Leadership 62(9) Richard Lowe For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen 71(14) Gary R. Kremer PART TWO: ``TO OWN OUR OWN LABOR'': BLACK MEN, ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WORKING-CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Black Policemen in New Orleans During Reconstruction 85(20) Dennis C. Rousey Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 105(24) Kenneth W. Porter The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 129(10) Manning Marable ``Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down'': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 139(35) Eric Arnesen ``A Constant Struggle Between Interest and Humanity'': Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the New South 174(15) Alex Lichtenstein PART THREE: BLACK MEN, THE PROFESSIONS, AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1915 189(11) J. R. Oldfield Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 200(34) Todd L. Savitt The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood 234(15) Vicki Howard The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States 249(34) Betty M. Kuyk PART FOUR: PROVING BLACK MANHOOD: THE ALLURE OF SPORT AND THE MILITARY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship: A Black Athlete's Struggle Against the Late Nineteenth Century Color-Line 283(26) David K. Wiggins The Black Bicycle Corps 309(11) Marvin E. Fletcher African Americans and the War Against Spain 320(29) Piero Gleijeses PART FIVE: END-OF-THE-CENTURY ARCHETYPES: SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN BLACK MANHOOD AND MASCULINITY The Anatomy of Lynching 349(21) Robyn Wiegman The Heroic Appeal of John Henry 370(17) Brett Williams Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth 387(54) George M. Eberhart Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglass as Representative Black Man 441(14) Wilson J. Moses Sources 455(2) Selected Bibliography 457(12) Index 469