Reviewed by Martin Summers | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. By Riché Richardson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xi + 296 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Riché Richardson has given us an enormously complex analysis of the historical and contemporary cultural representations of southern black men. While there is no shortage of scholarly texts on black masculinity in which the South figures at least in superficial ways, Richardson's study is one of the first that centers the region in a spatial analysis of the ideological construction and cultural performance of black male subjectivity. For this reason, Black Masculinity in the U.S. South makes a very important contribution to, among other fields, African American and gender studies.

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