Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in Slave communities of the American South.
Rather than automatically support one another against an emasculatory white society, Doddington explores how enslav.
David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond unilateral discussions of Slave masculinity, and instead demonstrates how the repressions of slavery were both personal and political.
Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in Slave communities of the American South