Are we not men?: masculine anxiety and the problem of African-American identity

Part I. Black masculine anxiety

Eloquence and epitaph: AIDS, homophobia, and problematics of black masculinity

Nationalism and social division in black arts poetry of the 1960s

What's my name?? Designation, identification, and cultural "authenticity"

Class acts: The "street," popular music, and black-cultural crossover

Part II. The limits of race and social regulation

Gender politics and the "passing" fancy: Black masculinity as societal problem

The reassuring shock of recognition: Blackness, social order, and crimes of identity

Part III. Negotiating difference in African-American culture

Extra- special effects: Televisual representation and the undoing of "the black experience"

Backing up, crossing over, breaking out: Social significances of pop-musical form.