The Sunny South Or The Southerner At Home Embracing Five Years Experience Of A Northern Governess In The Land Of The Sugar And The Cotton

Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American culture and community.

Amos's study delineates the basis for Mobile's growth and the ways in which residents and their government promoted growth and adapted to it.