Melodramas of beset black manhood? Meditations on African-American masculinity as scholarly topos and social menace: An introduction

Callaloo

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 732-737

  Brown, Stephanie ^a   Clark, Keith ^a  

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EID: 33644976439     PISSN: 01612492     EISSN: 10806512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0078     Document Type: Review

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