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Green investigates what comes of abandonment by a father and loss of a role model by probing a son's understanding of his father's struggles to define himself and the role of community in forming the son's quest for self-definition in his father's absence.Closely examining four works - Langston Hughes' \"\"The Big Sea\"\", Richard Wright's \"\"Black Boy\"\", Malcolm X's \"\"The Autobiography of Malcolm X\"\", and Barack Obama's \"\"Dreams from My Father\"\" - Green portrays the intersecting experiences of generations of black men during the twentieth century both before and after the civil rights movement. These four men recall feeling the pressure and responsibility of caring for their mothers, resisting public displays of care, and desiring a loving, non contentious relationship with their fathers. Feeling vulnerable to forces they may have identified as detrimental to their status as black men, they use autobiography as a tool for healing, a way to confront that vulnerability and to claim a lost power associated with their lost fathers.Through her analysis, Green emphasizes the role of community as a father-substitute in producing successful black men, the impact of fatherlessness on self-perceptions and relationships with women, and black men's engagement with healing the pain of abandonment. She also looks at why these four men visited Africa to reclaim a cultural history and identity, showing how each developed a clearer understanding of himself as an American man of African descent.\"\"A Fatherless Child\"\" conveys important lessons relevant to current debates regarding the status of African American families in the twenty-first century. By showing us four black men of different eras, Green asks readers to consider how much any child can heal from fatherlessness to construct a positive self-image - and shows that, contrary to popular perceptions, fatherlessness need not lead to certain failure.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371135242513,"sku":"CIN0826218210G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826218210.jpg?v=1751329621"},{"product_id":"from-the-plantation-to-the-prison-african-american-confinement-literature-h746-m-book-tara-t-green-9780881460902","title":"From The Plantation To The Prison: African-American Confinement Literature (H746\/Mrc)","description":"Confinement appropriately describes the status of African Americans who have been incarcerated. Spaces of confinement include?but are not limited to? plantations, Jim Crow societies, and prisons. 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Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women’s history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance.  Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create a literary biography that examines Dunbar-Nelson's life and legacy as a respectable activist – a woman who navigated complex challenges associated with resisting racism and sexism, and who defined her sexual identity and sexual agency within the confines of respectability politics. 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During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their lives and to the public at large. They were Black women who, despite their public profiles, whether through Black society or through the world of entertainment, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure.They left home, undertook careers they loved, and did what they wanted, despite perhaps not meeting the standards for respectability in the interwar era. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of other Black women of the time, who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government, yet still managed to enjoy themselves. Among the voyeurs of Black women was Langston Hughes, whose novel Not Without Laughter was clearly a work of fiction inspired by women he observed in public and knew personally, including Black clubwomen, blues performers, and his mother. How did these complicated women wrest loose from the voyeurs to define their own sense of themselves? At very young ages, they found and celebrated aspects of themselves. Using examples from these women’s lives, Green explores their challenges and achievements.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51330169110801,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330171863313,"sku":"CIN1978826028G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1978826028.jpg?v=1761388713"},{"product_id":"reimagining-the-middle-passage-book-tara-t-green-9780814254714","title":"Reimagining the Middle Passage","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song\u003c\/i\u003e, Tara T. 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