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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Black masculinity"”.
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The representation of Black masculinity in post-apartheid children's literature.
… This study focused on the representation of black masculinity in a sample of South African children's literature published after apartheid. The aim was to investigate how race, gender, and class intersect in the representation of black masculinity.
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From boys to men: exploring black masculinity ideologies about women in South Africa
Background: Masculinity is not a fixed identity but a socially constructed and culturally specific set of expectations about how men should behave. Among Xhosa men, the traditional rite of passage into manhood known as ulwaluko plays a key role in socialising boys into culturally sanctioned forms …
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Lemonade, gin, and juice: the performance and deconstruction of black masculinity from n**gers to negus
<p>This project examines the effects of Black masculinity: its performance, the identity politics that materialize in the discovery of Black “maleness,” and its manifestation through male intrasexual competition to analyze how Black men learn and perform traditional patriarchal masculinity. …
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TRANSFORMING THE IMAGE OF BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE NBA: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NBA CARES PROGRAM
… the transformation of the narrative of black masculinity in the NBA. I argue that the images in the NBA Cares Week 2013 video supplant the probability and fidelity of the narrative of black masculinity as presented in the Malice in the Palace brawl between the Detroit Pistons and the …
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The Anti-Black Hero: Black Masculinity Media Representation as Seen in Netflix Series Luke Cage and Fox Series Empire
<p>The reoccurrence of the Black Brute, the Thug, and the modern day Coon stereotypical images on current television narrowly defines Black masculinity as a monolithic experience. Young Black boys, are often unable to see themselves as those who are portrayed on television. The images they see on …
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Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s assertion ‘the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the White man’ (Fanon,1982:110) this research project analyses the ways in which representation has affected the performativity of Black masculinity in non-urban settings in the UK. Framed by a Practice …
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Just Be A Man About It: The Influence of Masculinity on Coping Mechanisms In Undergraduate African American Men
… design, this research explored the influence of masculinity on the coping mechanisms of undergraduate African American men. A secondary purpose was to develop a qualitatively grounded, culturally tailored Masculinity scale for use in future research in this area. The qualitative phase included …
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine
… Lyon. In examining this relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee Daniels’ particular representation lends to an expansion of current notions of black masculinity within the quotidian. I argue that through re-representing the ways in which …
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The Ella Effect: An Activist's Journey Towards Mentoring Progressive Black Masculinities Into Motion
… Mutua's intersectional vision of Progressive Black Masculinities into motion which reimagines traditional black masculinity in ways that move beyond negative social scripts in order for black men to reach their full humanity. Modeled on the activist work of Ella Jo Baker, a community …
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Power, money, and sex(uality): the Black Masculine Paradigm
This study develops the Black Masculine Paradigm (BMP), a construct used to trace historically specific components that inform black masculinity and explores the physical and psychological defensive strategies employed by black men in Richard Wright's Black Boy, Claude Brown's Manchild in the …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
This project examines the ways in which Black men in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora define themselves as gendered beings in their fiction and drama beginning with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Black men created a …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… an alternative to hegemonic white middle-class masculinity, appropriated imaginary black masculinities into their lives and work. The dissertation demonstrates that during the civil rights era images of black men circulated widely in U.S. popular culture, in part because of the acceleration of …
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The Rhetoric Of The Hip Hop Hustler: Shifting Representations Of American Identity
… in that he produces and performs a new mode of black masculinity that is unlike seen previously in the popular American imagination. This mode of black masculinity disrupts and shifts long held governing logics that have ordered notions of race in America. By recasting the Self-Made Man, as …
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The power of images: The confrontation of violence and the construction of black manhood in the films of Gordon Parks
… to argue that four of his films, all centered on black men, explore how black men in America might attain greater agency through self-awareness, particularly in the context of racialized violence. The films under consideration are The Learning Tree (1969), Shaft (1971), Leadbelly (1976), and …
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Infamous Mobsters and Legalized Trauma: A Justice Approach Towards the Sociology of Black Masculinities and Generational Trauma
… Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that Black men are at a noticeably higher risk for exposure to trauma. Most are unaware of the sociohistorical beginnings of masculinity and manhood. Therefore, a high percentage of young men accept these representations of masculinities at face value …
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The Myth of Promiscuity: Examining Black Male Sexual Narratives and Sexual Identity
<p>Black masculinity and sexuality are common topics across areas of philosophy, psychology, cultural studies and others. Yet, these topics are dedicated to the racial narrative of hypersexual Black male, the sexual objectification of Black men, and their presumed promiscuity. While such topics are …
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“I knew you wasn’t soft”- masculinity in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk
The focus of this study is black masculinity presented in films written and directed by Barry Jenkins, as the director’s approach to African American manhood is arguably modern and offers a new, fresh perspective. As this dissertation asserts, characters created by Jenkins are complex and not easy …
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Black male partial (in)visibility syndrome: a qualitative study of the narratives of Black masculine identities at the Pebbles School
This dissertation explores how 12 diverse Black males who attend or graduated from the Pebbles School—an urban all-male public combined middle and high school—constructed, perceived, and negotiated their identities as males. Examining the relationship between masculinity and education, my study is …
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