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- Title
Diasporic Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transnational Production of Black Middle-Class Masculinity.
- Authors
Summers, Martin
- Abstract
This essay examines the relationship between two black Freemasons in the Gold Coast and New York in the 1930s. Drawing on the correspondence of D. K. Abadu Bentsi and Harry A. Williamson, this essay argues that fraternal voluntary associations operated as sites for the formation of a gendered diasporic identity. In doing so, it suggests that we need to complicate our understanding of diaspora by considering the ways in which the development of diasporic subjectivity and consciousness, as a dynamic process, is inextricably bound up in the formation of class and gender identities and the maintenance of class and gender boundaries.
- Subjects
DIASPORA; BROTHERHOODS; FREEMASONRY; BLACK people; MIDDLE class; MASCULINITY; ABADU-Bentsi, D. K.
- Publication
Gender & History, 2003, Vol 15, Issue 3, p550
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00320.x