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Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
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by Vershawn Ashanti YoungVershawn Ashanti Young
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Overview
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814335765 |
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Publisher: | Wayne State University Press |
Publication date: | 03/01/2007 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 192 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Vershawn Ashanti Young is assistant professor of rhetoric and African American world studies at the University of Iowa.
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