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Podcast: New Books in African American Studies
Episode: Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)
Description: In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Mark Anthony Neal’s pivotal text New Black Man (Routledge, 2015), Mickell Carter interviews Neal about the book’s revolutionary model of Black masculinity for the twenty-first century—one that moves beyond patriarchy to embrace feminism and confront homophobia.
Now more vital than ever, New Black Man urges us to imagine a redefined Black masculinity grounded in family, community, and diversity. Part memoir and part manifesto, the book celebrates the Black man of our time in all his vibrancy and complexity.
The tenth-anniversary edition (2015) of this classic text includes a new forewor...