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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"White Masculinity"”.
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White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity
This study examines white-male elite understandings of diversity and leadership to consider possibilities for exploring articulations of white masculinity. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with white-male leaders in their organizations who by virtue of their race, gender, class, …
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"They Don't Make'em Like They Used To": Cultural Hegemony and the Representation of White Masculinity in Recent U.S. Cinema
The purpose of this work is to illuminate how white male hegemony over women and minorities is inscribed through the process of film representation. A critical interrogation of six film texts produced over the last decade yields pertinent examples of how the process of hegemonic negotiation works …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… meanings articulated with a number of youthful white masculinities throughout the 1990s in American sport and popular culture that are simultaneously constituted by, and constitutive of, the Generation X discursive formation of this era. In particular, I examine the images of white masculinity …
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Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man
This thesis investigates how hegemonic white masculinity adopts a new mode of material accumulation by entering into an ambivalent existence as a historical agent and metahistory at the same time and continues to function as a performative identity that offers a point of identification for the …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
… processing of the impression of a crisis of (white) masculinity that is now commonly discussed in both populist and academic environments and discourses. The paper compares the two movies Taxi Driver and Falling Down in their representation of their protagonists' struggle in delivering a …
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Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead
… that zombie narratives have always been about white masculinity and that colonialism is the true living dead monster. The zombie is not the load-bearing signifier in these stories. It is the white men who act as representatives of empire that embody tropes and evolve. This dissertation examines …
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Beneath the "Thin Veneer of Civilization": Evolution, Masculinity, and Race in the Early Twentieth Century United States
… I argue that these evolutionary narratives of white masculinity portrayed the white male body as powerful yet vulnerable to degeneracy, setting an alarmist agenda for reclaiming a conservative cultural identity for the nation.
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Jimmy Choos vs. Ariats: The presentation of masculinity in the online sex ads of men who have sex with men
The concept of masculinity should be understood in terms of its fluidity. One cannot say that there is a specific "white" masculinity or a specific "straight" masculinity; rather, masculinity is constantly changing. The inherent problem of defining masculinity has not deterred researches but has …
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Culturally responsive school leadership: Examining White male principals’ practices
… question for the study is as follows: How do Whiteness and masculinity influence the enactment of culturally responsive school leadership by White male K-12 principals in exurban school settings? Interviews, school handbook policy analysis, and examinations of participants’ professional social …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… triumph and violence and heteronormative white masculinity. Embedded into reiterations of Chosen Ones in American fantasy films and television, this body is being destabilized and decolonized.</p> <p>In close readings of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire …
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Indigenous Detroit: indigeneity, modernity, and racial and gender formation in a modern American city, 1871-2000
… I argue that, in a quest to bolster both white masculinity and Detroit’s urban standing, elite white men both memorialized and erased Detroit’s indigenous past. However, as I argue in chapters three and four, Indigenus residents such as Dakota Charles Eastman and women like my …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
<p>My dissertation argues that white women played crucial roles in the economic, political, and cultural circuits that linked the United States and Cuba, and the hemisphere broadly, during the nineteenth century. It inserts white women into a historical account of U.S. imperialism by analyzing the …
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The language and politics of place: autobiographical curriculum in the American South
… compensates for a sense of insufficiency in white men, thus supporting collective belief in the adequacy of white masculinity and the coherence of southern community. In its most rigid form, this cultural rhetoric demands the adherence of individuals to dominant cultural values and excludes …
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Wandering into the Wasteland: White American Masculinities in the Apocalyptic Science Fiction Road Narrative
This thesis examines the portrayal of American white male subjects within the apocalyptic science fiction road narrative, focusing on two visual media in which this genre hybrid features prominently: film and comics. The study builds upon an embryonic body of scholarship addressing several …
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What Are You Crying For?: Renegotiating White Masculine Hegemony through Melodramatic Excess in the 1990s Films of Tom Hanks
… thesis studies the emergence of a renegotiated masculinity in the 1990s predicated on the expression and containment of anxieties around White masculinity and an appropriation of the melodramatic mode. By establishing a historical and theoretical foundation from which to understand and analyze …
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Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
This dissertation offers the term “negative masculinity” as an analytic for a variety of ways of thinking about freedom in postwar American literature. This term is built in part by theories of freedom in American political thinking that value individualism and autonomy, and this dissertation …
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… two high-brow examples of Cold War literature by white male authors, Norman Mailer's An American Dream (1965) and John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), and examine them through the lens of the lesser-known gay pulp $tud (1966) by Phil Andros. Although $tud's gay hustler protagonist Phil seems to be a …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
… in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of black masculinity. The doubts raised by male hysteria …
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The classics, the cane and rugby : the life of Aubrey Samuel Langley and his mission to make men in the high schools of Natal, 1871-1939
… philosophy on boy's education and upper class white masculinity in Natal. In order to achieve these aims, the thesis investigates Langley's childhood on the colonial frontier; the English public school system that characterized Langley's own secondary education and educational model that he …