Men in Color: Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema
Editor: Josep M. Armengol
Date Of Publication: Jan 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2630-3
Isbn: 1-4438-2630-8
Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both white and non-white, in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. If most of the existing studies on masculinity and race have centered on one specific model of racialized masculinities, Men in Color attempts to provide an introductory perspective on different racialized masculinities simultaneously, including African American, Asian American, Chicano, Arab American, and also white masculinity, which is analyzed as another ethnic and gendered construct, rather than as a paradigm of normalcy and “universality.” By exploring several ethnic masculinities in relation to each other, the present volume aims to highlight both the differences and the similarities between different patterns of masculinity, showing how, even as gender is inflected by race, certain aspects or features of masculinity remain unchanged across the ethnic board.

Ultimately, the volume as a whole illustrates both the changing nature of masculinities as well as the recurrence of certain stereotypes, such as the hypersexualization and/or the feminization of ethnic males, which recur in and across several ethnicities. The constant tension and intersection between gender and race is the subject of this book, which hopes to contribute some notes and reflections on ethnic masculinities to the much more complex and larger discussion about gender and racial identities in our increasingly multicultural and globalized 21st-century world.

Josep M. Armengol obtained his Ph.D. in English (with Honors) from the University of Barcelona, Spain, with the thesis “Gendering Men: Theorizing Masculinities in American Culture and Literature” (2006). A renowned masculinity scholar, he has lectured and published extensively on masculinity studies, especially on literary representations of masculinity, in prestigious academic journals such as Signs, Men and Masculinities, the Hemingway Review, and Journal of Men’s Studies, among others. His latest books include Re/Presenting Men: Cultural and Literary Constructions of Masculinity in the U.S. (2008), Debating Masculinity (2009), and Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities (2010). He is also an international advisory editor for the academic journal Men and Masculinities (Sage Publications). Currently, he is Associate Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, where he is working on a new book on masculinities in African American fiction.

“With his keen eye for diversity, texture and nuance, Josep Armengol has assembled here a rich selection of essays on contemporary depictions of American masculinities, white and non-white, in literature, film and other cultural media. Men in Color provides an invaluable resource for reflecting on the differences and the similarities between apparently very distinct patterns of masculinity, highlighting the perennial tension between gender, race and ethnicity in men’s battle for manhood.”

—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College, University of London; Author of Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men

“This is just the kind of collection we need in gender studies these days: each chapter contains a close reading of particular authors or texts, but each is so carefully grounded in gender studies theory that the collection adds up to a whole far greater than the sum of its parts. Wise and judicious editing creates a coherent whole out of these disparate strands.”

—Michael Kimmel, Editor of Men and Masculinities

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