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Showdown: Symbolic Violence and Masculine Performance in "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (As Told to Alex Haley)

Douglas Taylor*

Howard University

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: detaylor{at}howard.edu.


  Abstract
While written during Malcolm X’s Muslim years, the narrative standpoint of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley) often mirrors the "cool pose" he adopted as a hustler in the black ghettoes of Harlem and Roxbury. By focusing on the way that cool pose gets enacted through "showdowns," a symbolic transaction Malcolm and the other street hustlers in The Autobiography use to bolster their "masculinity," this essay supplements the performative model of gender with a consideration of the ways that "masculinity" also involves exchanges of gender power.

First published on September 18, 2007
Men and Masculinities 2007, doi:10.1177/1097184X07303726
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