PRAISE FOR
Black Men’s Studies
Theft of Self
To study in the dimming shadows of oversight one must learn to feel for truth
and manifest a practical faith
an even deeper study.
Then, one must endure the witnessing of discarded essential elements.
One must remember and remap their tombs,
to be regathered and reassembled,
to be righteously deposed.
Africana studies makes a long pass
through an ancient and angry valley
that has been known by many names.
An anthology of half-truths must be studied
and suffered
in the same life and body, by the wrighted one.
The thrash and burn of a treacherous sea
that smiles and bites with the same mouth
halved.
This journey calls a man with tenacity like Noah,
a wheelwright who contemplates in the storm
“The Theft of Self”.
“Dr. Serie McDougal,
ON YOUR FEET!”
demands an admirable admiral.
—Orron Kenyett, Poet, Author of “Outlasting Denial”
Rochelle Brock and Cynthia Dillard
Executive Editors
Vol. 115
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Serie McDougal III
Black Men’s Studies
Black Manhood and Masculinities in the U.S. Context
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Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw
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ISSN 1947-5985
ISBN 978-1-4331-7675-3 (paperback: alk. paper)
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ISBN 978-1-4331-7677-7 (epub)
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DOI 10.3726/b16453
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About the author
Serie McDougal, III is a professor in the Department of Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. in sociology from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Africana studies from the State University of New York at Albany, New York, and a Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Serie McDougal is also the co-director of the Afrometrics Research Institute.
About the book
Black Men’s Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context. It not only frames their experiences, it also explores the multidimensional approaches to advancing the lives of Black men. Particular attention is given to placing Black men in their own unique historical, cultural, and socio-political contexts.
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Contents
Introduction: Trying to See Black Men and Boys
Seeing the Humanity and Personhood of Black Men and Boys
Seeing Black Males in Historical Context
