Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
Contents
Love Jones : a black male feminist critique of Chester Himes's If he hollers let him go -- Black patriarchy and the dilemma of black women's complicity in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- "Killing the white girl first" : understanding the politics of black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- "So much of what we know ain't so" : the other gender in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- "Like a butterfly in a hurricane" : reconceptualizing black gendered resistance in Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned and Walkin' the dog.