This compelling book examines the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically and within American politics as a whole. Nikol Alexander-Floyd's new work highlights the critical role of race and gender, showing how they operate to define political discourse and to determine public policy.
Author(s): Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 256
Contents......Page 8
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
1 Toward a Black Feminist Frame of Reference: Gender, Nationalism, and the Ironies of Black Politics......Page 36
2 “We Shall Have Our Manhood”: Black Macho, the Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm, and the Million Man March......Page 70
3 The Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm and George W. Bush’s Faith-Based and Fatherhood Initiatives......Page 94
4 “A Threat from Within”: The Black Woman as Traitor in African American Thought and Politics......Page 128
Conclusion: “When and Where I Enter”: Gender and Black Feminist Praxis in the Study and Interpretation of Black Politics......Page 166
Notes......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 220
B......Page 242
C......Page 246
E......Page 247
F......Page 248
G......Page 249
I......Page 250
M......Page 251
P......Page 252
S......Page 253
U......Page 254
Y......Page 255
