Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775-1995
"A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”
–Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity