Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics [Paperback]

An examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole. The author not only highlights the critical role of race and gender, she goes further to show how they operate to define political discourse and to determine public policy.Introduction Towards a Black Feminist Frame of Reference: Gender, Nationalism and the Ironies of Black Politics We Shall Have Our Manhood: Black Macho, the Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm, and the Million Man March Black Nationalism Goes to Washington: The Black Cultural Pathology Paradigm and Contemporary Social Policy A Threat from Within: The Black Woman as Traitor in African American Political Thought and Practice But Some of Us Are [Still] Brave - On the Promise and Perils of Feminist Praxis Epilogue

In Gender, Race, and Nationalism, Nikol G.Alexander-Floyd makes a timely and necessary contribution to the study of Blackpolitics by highlighting the ways in which our efforts to combat racialinequality are simultaneously supporting conservative White nationalist notionsof Black pathology vis a vis our gender relations. (Kiana Cox, NationalPolitical Science Review, Vol. 17 (1), November, 2015)

Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship by a cohort of second generation Black feminist political scientists...Alexander-Floyd reveals not only the significance of the cultural dimensions of politics, but also how conventional social science paradigms often obscure rather than clarify. In addition to an interdisciplinary mix of feminist analysis, cultural studies, and policy analysis, her work offers an excellent illustration of how to examine the imbrications of race, gender, and class. - American Politics The book makes major contributions to both the field of gender and politics and also to the Black politics field. In comparison to recenlcÀ