Masculinity isn't broken—it's been built.
From colonial land grabs to slavery's shadows, industrialization's grind, and today's social-media scoreboard, manhood in America has never been natural. It's engineered: reshaped to serve power, policed by race, and sold back to men as proof of worth.
Especially for Black men. Severed from roots, forced into borrowed scripts—hypersexual, dangerous, or invisible—yet still expected to perform. This isn't a cry for help. It's exposure: how land, labor, law, empire, religion, and media all twisted masculinity into a tool. How white manhood became the default, Black manhood the shadow.
And how some men—quietly, stubbornly—refused. They stepped back from rigged roles, built their own in churches, music, families, streets. Sovereign masculinity: not dominance, not productivity, not applause. Just presence. Integrity. Self.
If you've ever felt the weight of "be a man," wondered why the rules keep shifting—this book traces the blueprint. No nostalgia. No blame. Just clarity.
For the men who refuse.
For the women who see.
Masculine, masculine—where art thou? Right her
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