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New Black Man
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The Journal of American Culture
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December 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCopyright Blackwell Publishing Dec 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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New Black Man Mark Anthony Neal. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.
"The Black Man is in crisis," Mark Anthony Neal begins his book, New Black Man. Centuries of being enslaved, then economically exploited, controlled by violence meted out by white men, as well as self-erupting from within, have left the impression that black men were (and remain) under siege. However, it is not the fragile status of black manhood within American society that concerns Neal, but the havoc wreaked upon women and children, and ultimately the whole community, by obeisance to a "functional myth" that he calls the "Strong Black Man." He names boxer Mike Tyson, hip-hop artist Dr. Dre, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, ...