Herman Gray’s chapter Culture, Masculinity, and Time after Race provides his commentary of several researchers’ analysis of black masculinity, it’s representation and role in culture in a supposedly “post-racial” America. The stances that he goes over are made up of several problematic combinations of inclinations towards either cultural or social structural influences with either a more liberal or conservative lens, some labeling racialized groups as “disposable” (101). The goal of these arguments is an attempt to explain how society sees black masculinity’s pathology for a cultural insularity, away from the mainstream and therefor away from the inclusiveness of the American “we” (89). From his commentary Gray clearly states that he wants
