Black Power masculinity internalized the racist myth of the emasculated Black man

Evidence

Cleaver’s book became the manifesto of Black Power masculinity to redeem the tragic colonized male, whose soul was “on ice,” whose being was the “Black Eunuch.” The book demonstrated that Black Power masculinity had in fact accepted the racist idea of the emasculated Black man, an idea popularized by the ever-popular Moynihan Report of 1965. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1015

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the reader’s goal of placing arguments into Kendi’s three-way scheme — this shows how even avowed antiracist movements (Black Power) hid assimilationist/racist premises underneath. — connects to: Black family patriarchy was a lived reality that scholarship on black male emasculation denied — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 219; The claim of black male emasculation contradicts lived black patriarchy under segregation — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 219; Black men’s disfranchisement compounded, not created, black women’s political powerlessness — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 48
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely subtle point: antiracist resistance can itself be built on absorbed racist premises, complicating any clean segregationist/assimilationist/antiracist placement.