"ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?" Imagining Ethiopia and Transnational Black Masculinity

As significant as the preoccupation with the Italo-Ethiopian War was to the formation of African American interwar leftist politics, Ethiopia itself needs to be understood for how it becomes an important site to reconsider the relationship of transnationalism to constructions of black masculinity in the American imagination. By prefiguring the issue of masculinity, Wilson seeks to underscore the gendered resonances of Ethiopia that have produced specific iterations of transnational black subjectivity.