Throughout history there has always been stereo types of the black male. In Marable Manning reading he points out what white men thought of blacks as slaves. An insteresting piece I came across in the reading was how even tho the white man said that the black men were uneducated the black male actually contributed by doing what the white men couldn't like "Africans were the first to cultivate wheat on the continent; they showed their illerate masters how to grow indigo, rice,and cotton their extensive knowledge of herbs and roots provided colonist with medicines and perservatives for supplies" (17). The reason why this so interesting because Marable points out the fact that white men wasn't as educated back then as they want people to believe being that they didn't have the knowlege of basic farming.
Work Sited: Marable,Manning." The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" Men Lives. 5th edition. Ed Michael S. kümmel and Michael A Messner. published in NYC Allyn & Bacon 2001 page 17
You raise an interesting point about the relationship between white and Black men, particularly in regards to education. But this needs to be developed. How does this connect to masculinity? Your Work Cited needs correcting from the "published in NYC..."? Please look up the format in The Little Penguin Handbook.
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