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A 3 page paper which examines how the male protagonists in each of these respective works experience a crisis of masculinity, comparing and contrasting their causes and resolutions. No additional sources are used.
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significant impact upon the black male. Apart from his race, it is his masculinity that uniquely defines a black male. Whenever his manhood is threatened by an individual
or by the socioeconomic expectations he or she represents, this is a major crisis that must be resolved in order for the black male to preserve his sense of self.
In Frederick Douglasss autobiographical Narrative, Lorraine Hansberrys play, A Raisin in the Sun, and Alice Walkers novel, The Color Purple, male characters who experience a crisis of masculinity are
prominently featured. The causes of and the ways resolution are achieved reveal much not only about the men themselves but also about where they envisioned themselves in white society.
Douglasss compelling memoir traces his journey from oppressed slave to free man. He had been suppressed in various ways from realizing his full potential, prohibited from receiving any type
of education especially reading and writing. Douglass seemed to instinctively sense early on that an education would cement his path of liberation and would provide him with the confidence
he needed to be his own man instead of being another mans piece of property. When he was placed under the supervision of impoverished farm tenant Edward Covey, who
had established a notorious reputation as being a "nigger breaker," young Douglass realized he was heading toward an important crisis of masculinity (Douglass 34). After all, Mr. Covey would
stop at nothing to emasculate male slaves so they would accept being dominated without putting up a fight. As Douglasss Narrative recalled, "Mr. Covey entered the stable with a
long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what
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