I’d love to talk to you about the failures of Tommy C. Curry’s _The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood_ and why it’s both a danger to Black women but moreso a disrespect to Black feminist thinking, which you clearly have an appreciation for. https://twitter.com/yahya/status/1294257881995411464

@yahya here’s a list of books on Black Manhood and critical Black masculinity that I think you should explore instead:

_The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture_ by Vincent Woodard

_On Black Men_ by David Marriott

_Song of Solomon_ by Toni Morrison

_Beloved_ by Toni Morrison

_Their Eyes Were Watching God_ by Zora Neale Hurston

_Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African American Identity_ by Phillip Brian Harper

@yahya

_Race Men_ by Hazel Carby

_Black Gay Man_ by Robert Reid-Pharr

_Black Men, Black Feminism: Lucifer’s Nocturne_ by Jared Sexton

_Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing_ by Jared Sexton

_Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995_ by Maurice O. Wallace

_Black Skin, White Masks_ by Frantz Fanon

_We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity_ by bell hooks

_The Will to Change_ by bell hooks

_ All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave_ by Hull, Bell-Scott, Smith

_Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing_ by Jeffrey Q. McCune

_Black Macho and the Myth of Superwoman_ by Michele Wallace

here’s the master thread on some of the more granular failures of Curry’s book and it’s violence to black feminism: https://twitter.com/hoodqueer/status/1187125347059302400?s=21