Congratulations to GWSS PhD student Ramon Johnson, whose book review of Dr. Saida Grundy’s "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" was recently published in the journal Men and Masculinities (Vol. 28, Issue 2, June 2025).
Grundy’s book offers a powerful ethnographic study of Morehouse College, critically examining Black masculinity, class, and respectability politics. In his review, Johnson discusses how Grundy traces the legacies and limitations of racial uplift ideologies, interrogates institutionalized gender and class norms, and illuminates the carceral dimensions of "restrictive manhood ideologies."
Looking ahead, Johnson is continuing his scholarly engagement with Black masculinities and higher education. This quarter, he is working on another book review for Dr. Michael P. Jeffries’ "Black and Queer On Campus."
Read Johnson’s review here: DOI link