Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mapping the Contours of Progressive Masculinities Athena D. MutuaPart 1 Theorizing Progressive Black Masculinities1. Theorizing Progressive Black Masculinities Athena D. Mutua2. Remembering our Feminist Forefathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall3. Toward Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood LatCrit and Critical Race Feminist Reflections: Thought Piece, May 2001 Elizabeth M. IglesiasPart 2 Strength, Not Privilege or Dominance4. Toward a Pedagogy of the Opressor Michael Kimmel5. A Telling Difference: Dominance, Strength, and Black Masculinities Patricia Hill CollinsPart 3 Christianity: Progressive Interpretations?6. Images of Masculinity in the Pauline Epistles: Resources for Constructing Progressive Black Masculinities, or Not? Gay L. Byron7. Progressive Black Masculinities and a Christian Experience: An Autobiographical Perspective Whitney G. HarrisPart 4 From Unwanted Traffic to Prison8. Reasonable and Unreasonable Suspects: The Cultural Construction of the Anonymous Black Man in Public Space (Here Be Dragons) John O. Calmore9. Incarcerated Masculinities Teresa A. MillerPart 5 Black Men in (Re) View10. Mirror’s Fade to Black: Masculinity, Misogyny, and Class Ideation in The Cosby Show and Martin Nathan Grant11. Welcome to the Terrordome: Exploring the Contradictions of a Hip-Hop Black Masculinity Timothy J. BrownPart 6 Black Feminists Engaged12. Beyond Competitive Victimhood: Abandoning Arguments That Black Women or Black Men Are Worse Off Stephanie L. Phillips13. Gender Justice: Linking Women’s Human Rights and Progressive Black Masculinities M. Bahati KuumbaPart 7 Walking the Talk14. Breaking the Silence: The Role of Progressive Black Men in the Fight Against Sexual Assault Thema Bryant-Davis Ph.D.15. Bringing Up Daddy: A Progressive Black Masculine Fatherhood? Mark Anthony NealSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

About the Author

Athena D. Mutua is Associate Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo.