Reimagining Black Masculinities
Title | Reimagining Black Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | Mark C. Hopson |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2020-10-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1793607044 |
Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision informs action and collective action informs possibilities for peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book particularly interesting.
Progressive Black Masculinities?
Title | Progressive Black Masculinities? PDF eBook |
Author | Athena D. Mutua |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2006-11-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135869278 |
In the struggle for pride and political agency, the imperative to 'be a man' has been central to the lives of black males. Yet, what it means to be a black man-in terms of both racial and gender identity-has been subject to continual debate in public and academic spheres alike. Progressive Black Masculinities brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity. Collectively, they offer a roadmap for new, progressive models of black masculinity that may chart the course for the future of black men.
Troubled Masculinities
Title | Troubled Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth James Moffatt |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442612746 |
Through personal narratives and assessments of artistic expression, the contributors present critical and inventive views of masculinity and how it is performed and interpreted in urban space. Set against the backdrop of Toronto, the essays engage with the global and transnational processes that affect identity and consider how the social hybridity of large cities allows individuals to work against fundamentalist and essentialist attitudes toward gender.
Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature
Title | Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Kyle Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780806134147 |
American writings often express a hunger for a mythologized frontier at the edge of known civilization, where one's identity, choices, and decisions are not limited by convention. Since the nineteenth century, writers have used this frontier space both to probe and to define the meanings of masculinity. In Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Michael K. Johnson examines the writings of black authors whose works use the mythologized frontier to explore black masculinity and identity formed in an environment free of racism and race-based restrictions. Black writers have reworked the mythology of the American West to address black male experiences more authentically, Johnson argues, grappling with such concerns as racial assimilation and the notion of "regenerative violence" as a method of masculine initiation. White-authored stories of frontier conquest often pit a white hunter against a hunted man of another race. In this ritual of the hunt, defeating the racial other renews white manhood. Black writers who invoke this ritual address the contradictions inherent in adapting a dominant culture form that routinely positions the black man as the hunted object rather than as the hunter. Following his discussion of the frontier in the American West, Johnson explores how writers invent new frontiers by mythologizing or reimagining various locations, such as Paris in the 1960s or the African continent. Johnson also addresses efforts by black authors to develop a frontier identity that transcends the gaps between the cultures of Africa and the mainstream culture of the United States.
Reimagining Black Art and Criminology
Title | Reimagining Black Art and Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Glynn |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-05-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1529213924 |
Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology.
The Agony of Masculinity
Title | The Agony of Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre W. Orelus |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781433104176 |
Drawing on critical race theory and empirical data from case studies involving fifty men of African descent, this book presents a new perspective on black masculinity, maleness, sexism, and institutional racism. The book situates black masculinity in a racial, socio-historical, and postcolonial context to provide innovative ways of understanding the profound effects of institutional racism. Although its focus is primarily on people of African descent, the book addresses issues concerning all races and ethnicities, explores the harmful effects of sexism and homophobia on women and queer people, and proposes practical steps that can be taken to fight against socio-economic inequality and injustice that is racially-, gender-, and sexually-based. Given the practical nature and interdisciplinary dimension of this book, readers and educators studying race, racism, sexism, and gender issues will find it germane to their needs and their classes.
Reimagining Equality
Title | Reimagining Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy E. Dowd |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1479893358 |
"Developmental equality–whether every child has an equal opportunity to reach their fullest potential–is essential for children’s future growth and access to opportunity. In the United States, however, children of color are disproportionately affected by poverty, poor educational outcomes, and structural discrimination, limiting their potential. In Reimagining Equality, Nancy E. Dowd sets out to examine the roots of these inequalities by tracing the life course of black boys from birth to age 18 in an effort to create an affirmative system of rights and support for all children." -- Publisher's description