How Long to Read The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered

How Long Does it Take to Read The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered by Timothy R. Buckner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson, a wealthy free Black barber in Natchez, Mississippi, to be among the most significant sources on free African Americans living in the antebellum South. Timothy R. Buckner’s The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered reexamines Johnson’s life using recent scholarship on Black masculinity as an essential lens, demonstrating a complexity to Johnson previously overlooked in academic studies. While Johnson’s profession as a barber helped him gain acceptance and respectability, it also required his subservience to the needs of his all-white clientele. Buckner’s research counters earlier assumptions that suggested Johnson held himself apart from Natchez’s Black population, revealing instead a man balanced between deep connections to the broader African American community and the necessity to cater to white patrons for economic and social survival. Buckner also highlights Johnson’s participation in the southern performance of manliness to a degree rarely seen in recent studies of Black masculinity. Like many other free Black men, Johnson asserted his manhood in ways beyond simply rebelling against slavery; he also competed with other men, white and Black, free and enslaved, in various masculine pursuits, including gambling, hunting, and fishing. Buckner’s long-overdue reevaluation of the contents of Johnson’s diary serves as a corrective to earlier works and a fascinating new account of a free African American business owner residing in the prewar South.

How long is The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered?

The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered by Timothy R. Buckner is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered aloud.

What Reading Level is The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered?

The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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