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Book Review

Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995. By Maurice O. Wallace. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2854-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2869-0.)
Professor Maurice O. Wallace's Constructing the Black Masculine is a postmodernist interpretation of the construction of black masculinity in memoirs, autobiography, novels, and photography. Having read this book I am glad I am a historian. For most historians, writing is still a matter of both clarity and communication. It is not a display of vocabularistic pyrotechnics in which the use of unpronounceable big words becomes an end in itself. This can be seen in Wallace's discussion of a 1994 cover of a New York Times Magazine depicting the back of a black man's head (p. 20). For example, just what does the following passage mean? . . .
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