Saida Grundy’s new book ‘Respectable’ featured in The Brink and Inside Higher Ed
Saida Grundy’s new book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man was featured in both BU’s The Brink and Inside Higher Ed this month. Read both stories to learn more about the book New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb has called, “an indispensable addition to the canon of work on Black masculinity.”
In The Brink interview, Professor Grundy summarizes the goal of Respectable:
“My takeaway is that racialization, the process of applying meaning to race, happens in more spaces than just interracial spaces, that Black spaces in themselves create meanings about what it means to be Black. And my argument in this book is that gender is the terrain through which many of us create the meanings of what it means to be Black.”