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Kim, Jeongho. “hooks and Hansberry: Shaping a New Type of Black Masculinity.” Studies in English Language & Literature 42.2 (2016): 17-36. Though Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun holds a central place in the Afro-American drama canon, her dissection of a black family’s quest for material stability and psychological fulfillment raises multiple questions about her inscription of the male characters. Hansberry sets her stance between sticking to an African set of values and holding the generally acknowledged universal themes. Her black male characters in A Raisin in the Sun, however, are fully motivated and well developed for their own conflict and resolution. Hansberry’s male characters can be seen full and round through bell hooks‘ vision of black masculinity. The so-called new type of black male refers to those who break with macho masculinity and care for their souls and inner lives, who are responsible to self, to family and friends, and to society, and who are capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable. (Chonbuk National University)