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The Black Man's Burden |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Gerald Early |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,853 Words, 17,675 Characters |
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SLIM'S TABLE
Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
Mitchell Duneier
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992
192 pp., $19.95
The black American male lives in the netherworld of a densely construed enigma: caught between being the pathological embodiment of a social problem and a desirable, even idealized, vision of a perverse and perverted masculinity. The burden of this may be that the black male is, arguably, the most stigmatized and studied person in America, his character, his intelligence, his essence, being the subject for writings from sociologists to historians, from criminologists to investigative journalists. But the origin of our perception of the black male lies more in the world of popular literature and culture than either in the middlebrow press or in the a...
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... one had a right to expect. No one has yet told the complex story of their life, their manhood, their place in the black community. Certainly Slim's Table comes nowhere near the epic dimensions necessary for that tale. And Duneier seems to have nothing near the epic intelligence for it. Surely, these men deserve better than such a slick, superficial, if well meaning, telling as Slim's Table.
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