Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.
Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present.
Marlon B. Ross is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era and The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry.
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Preamble. Sissies Everywhere ix 1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? 1 2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee 51 3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives 111 4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics 165 5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy 233 6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 283 Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy? 343 Notes 349 Bibliography 403 Index 433
Preamble. Sissies Everywhere ix 1. Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? 1 2. Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee 51 3. Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives 111 4. Baldwin's Sissy Heroics 165 5. Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy 233 6. Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete 283 Postscript. Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy? 343 Notes 349 Bibliography 403 Index 433
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