Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U. S. History and Literature, 1820 1945, edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, brings together scholars of history and literature focused on the lives and writing of black men during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. The interdisciplinary study demonstrates the masculine character of cultural practices developed from slavery through segregation. Black masculinity