Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology
by
Rolland Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their...