Weekly Book List, July 18, 2011

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Masculinity in the Black Imagination: Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Mark C. Hopson (Peter Lang Publishing; 243 pages; $139.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Essays on such topics as black masculinity in the black Greek-letter fraternity, the criminalization of black manhood in contemporary America, and humor, black masculinity, and queer identity on prime-time television.

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