In this Book
- Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Wayne State University Press
- Series: African American Life Series
summary
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
Table of Contents
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- Prelude: The Barbershop
- pp. xi-xvi
- Part 1. Home
- 1. Going Home
- pp. 17-36
- 2. So Black I’m Blue
- pp. 37-52
- 3. Nigga-Gender
- pp. 53-72
- Interlude: Hooked on Ebonics
- pp. 73-80
- Part 2. School
- 4. Your Average Nigga
- pp. 83-104
- 5. Casualties of Literacy
- pp. 105-124
- 6. To Be a Problem
- pp. 125-138
- Postlude: The Street
- pp. 139-146
- References
- pp. 155-160
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 169-170
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814335765
Related ISBN(s)
9780814332481
MARC Record
OCLC
755620612
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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