Jordana Matlon's A Man Among Other Men wins ISA Lee Ann Fujii Book Award
SIS Professor Jordanna Matlon’s book A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism has won the 2023 International Studies Association Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, which recognizes the best book published in the previous two calendar years that significantly advances issues of diversity in international relations.
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 .