What Can He Do?
What Can He Do?
African-American Churchmen Confront the Black Women's Era
This chapter examines North Carolina Baptist Convention leaders' efforts to make their churches and themselves more manly. Fearing that their churches were becoming feminized, they sought to weaken black church women's home missionary work. At the same time, black men campaigned to assume more of “women's work” by engaging in social service activity. The rhetoric of masculinization within the church influenced the dialogue and activity of North Carolina's black men and women as they fought to assert and redefine the influence of their respective genders within their churches.
Keywords: black men, black women, gender identity, North Carolina Baptist Convention, masculinization, missionary work
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