Masculinity in the Black Imagination - Politics of Communicating Race and Manhood

Ronald L. Jackson II (University of Illinois, Urbana) is a leading scholar on cultural identity and the study of masculinity. He is the author of several books, including The Negotiation of Cultural Identity and Scripting the Black Masculine Body. He is also co-editor of African American Rhetoric(s); African American Communication and Identities ; and Encyclopedia of Identity. Mark C. Hopson (George Mason University) is a leading scholar on critical intercultural communication, African American rhetoric, and Black masculinity studies.
He has recently completed a book, Notes from the Talking Drum : Black Communication, Critical Memory, and Intercultural Communication Contexts.