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Article: Murray, Rolland. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology.(Book review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- December 22, 2008
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MURRAY, ROLLAND. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 160 pp. $39.95.
Rolland Murray draws his title from Ossie Davis's stirring eulogy for Malcolm X. "He was our manhood," Davis proclaims, "our living black manhood! That was his meaning to his people. And in honoring him, we honor the best in ourselves." Murray's introduction points out that Davis's formulation "equates the racialized national community with the reconstruction of masculine identity and thereby reproduces a logic of communal belonging that has been a fixture of black politics from the antebellum era to the ...