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Jordanna Matlon's A Man among Other Men wins 5 awards

SIS Professor Jordanna Matlon’s book A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism has received five recent awards:

  • Winner, American Sociological Association 2023 Marxist Sociology Section Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award
  • Co-winner, Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division 2023 Book Award
  • Honorable mention, American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section 2023 Book Award
  • Honorable mention, American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section 2023 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award
  • Honorable mention, American Sociological Association Sociology of Sex and Gender Section 2023 Distinguished Book Award

A Man among Other Men examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification. It is available .