Ethnicities And Masculinities In The Making

Author : Harry Stecopoulos,Michael Uebel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822319667

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Race and the Subject of Masculinities by Harry Stecopoulos,Michael Uebel Pdf

Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity. The essays in Race and the Subject of Masculinities address this concern and focus on the social construction of masculinity--black, white, ethnic, gay, and straight--in terms of the often complex and dynamic relationships among these inseparable categories. Discussing a wide range of subjects including the inherent homoeroticism of martial-arts cinema, the relationship between working-class ideologies and Elvis impersonators, the emergence of a gay, black masculine aesthetic in the works of James Van der Zee and Robert Mapplethorpe, and the comedy of Richard Pryor, Race and the Subject of Masculinities provides a variety of opportunities for thinking about how race, sexuality, and "manhood" are reinforced and reconstituted in today's society. Editors Harry Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel have gathered together essays that make clear how the formation of masculine identity is never as obvious as it might seem to be. Examining personas as varied as Eddie Murphy, Bruce Lee, Tarzan, Malcolm X, and Andre Gidé, these essays draw on feminist critique and queer theory to demonstrate how cross-identification through performance and spectatorship among men of different races and cultural backgrounds has served to redefine masculinity in contemporary culture. By taking seriously the role of race in the making of men, Race and the Subject of Masculinities offers an important challenge to the new studies of masculinity. Contributors. Herman Beavers, Jonathan Dollimore, Richard Dyer, Robin D. G. Kelly, Christopher Looby, Leerom Medovoi, Eric Lott, Deborah E. McDowell, José E. Muñoz, Harry Stecopoulos, Yvonne Tasker, Michael Uebel, Gayle Wald, Robyn Wiegman

Author : Melissa N. Stein
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944692

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Measuring Manhood by Melissa N. Stein Pdf

From the “gay gene” to the “female brain” and African American students’ insufficient “hereditary background” for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start. Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances. She tells of scientific “experts” who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference. Stein examines the works of scientists and scholars from medicine, biology, ethnology, and other fields to trace how their conclusions about human difference did no less than to legitimize sociopolitical hierarchy in the United States. Covering a wide range of historical actors from Samuel Morton, the infamous collector and measurer of skulls in the 1830s, to NAACP leader and antilynching activist Walter White in the 1930s, this book reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making?and unmaking?of race.

Author : Josep M. Armengol
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443827515

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Men in Color by Josep M. Armengol Pdf

Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both white and non-white, in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. If most of the existing studies on masculinity and race have centered on one specific model of racialized masculinities, Men in Color attempts to provide an introductory perspective on different racialized masculinities simultaneously, including African American, Asian American, Chicano, Arab American, and also white masculinity, which is analyzed as another ethnic and gendered construct, rather than as a paradigm of normalcy and “universality.” By exploring several ethnic masculinities in relation to each other, the present volume aims to highlight both the differences and the similarities between different patterns of masculinity, showing how, even as gender is inflected by race, certain aspects or features of masculinity remain unchanged across the ethnic board. Ultimately, the volume as a whole illustrates both the changing nature of masculinities as well as the recurrence of certain stereotypes, such as the hypersexualization and/or the feminization of ethnic males, which recur in and across several ethnicities. The constant tension and intersection between gender and race is the subject of this book, which hopes to contribute some notes and reflections on ethnic masculinities to the much more complex and larger discussion about gender and racial identities in our increasingly multicultural and globalized 21st-century world.

Author : Mike O'Donnell,Sue Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781134741410

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Uncertain Masculinities by Mike O'Donnell,Sue Sharpe Pdf

This book takes a fascinating tour through the problems and opportunities facing teenage boys and young men, addressing one of the most important questions of our time: what does 'masculinity' mean today?

Author : Mark C. Hopson,Mika'il Petin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793607041

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Reimagining Black Masculinities by Mark C. Hopson,Mika'il Petin Pdf

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.

Author : Gerhard Johann Schwab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Guam
ISBN : UOM:39015041789671

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Ethnicities and Masculinities in the Making by Gerhard Johann Schwab Pdf

Author : Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335231133

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Understanding Masculinities by Mairtin Mac an Ghaill Pdf

Masculinity is gaining increasing popular and academic interest. At one level, football hooligans, absent fathers, 'Essex man' and 'new men' are regular media presences. At the same time, masculinity is the subject of increasingly sophisicated theoretical discussion, and there are a wide range of accounts of what masculinity means. Understanding Masculinities is the first introductory text to examine the range of different theoretical and methodological approaches to the understanding of masculinity. It brings together overviews of the key theoretical debates with new empirical material, focusing on different social and cultural arenas, and the wide range of masculinities which exist. It discusses education, unemployment, sport, sexuality, HIV, and black masculinities. Understanding Masculinities critically explores the gendered and sexual dynamics of these masculinities, challenging and transforming our conventional assumptions. Understanding Masculinities will be important reading for undergraduate and masters students of sociology, women's studies, gender and psychology. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with broadening their understanding of masculinity.

Author : Lance T. McCready
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American teenage boys
ISBN : 1433106752

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Making Space for Diverse Masculinities by Lance T. McCready Pdf

Studies "the everyday lives of four gay and gender-nonconforming African American males in a North American urban high school." (p. 5).

Author : Katharine Bausch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774863759

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He Thinks He's Down by Katharine Bausch Pdf

The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social change. As a result, several prominent white male pop culture figures sought out and appropriated African American cultural trappings to benefit from what they believed were powerful black masculinities. In He Thinks He’s Down, Katharine Bausch draws on case studies from three genres – the writings of Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, advertising and aesthetics in Playboy magazine, and action narratives of Blaxploitation films – to illustrate how each one engaged with black tropes while simultaneously doing little to change the racial and gendered stereotypes that perpetuated the power of white male privilege.

Author : Chong Chon-Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626745254

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East Meets Black by Chong Chon-Smith Pdf

East Meets Black examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the post-civil rights era. Indeed Asian and black men in neoliberal America are cast by white supremacy as oppositional. Through this opposition in the US racial hierarchy, Chong Chon-Smith argues that Asian and black men are positioned along binaries brain/body, diligent/lazy, nerd/criminal, culture/ genetics, student/convict, and technocrat/athlete--in what he terms "racial magnetism." Via this concept, East Meets Black traces the national conversations that oppose black and Asian masculinities, but also the Afro-Asian counterpoints in literature, film, popular sport, hip-hop music, performance arts, and internet subcultures. Chon-Smith highlights the spectacle and performance of baseball players such as Ichiro Suzuki within global multiculturalism and the racially coded controversy between Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal in transnational basketball. Further, he assesses the prominence of martial arts buddy films such as Romeo Must Die and Rush Hour that produce Afro-Asian solidarity in mainstream Hollywood cinema. Finally, Chon-Smith explores how the Afro-Asian cultural fusions in hip-hop open up possibilities for the creation of alternative subcultures, to disrupt myths of black pathology and the Asian model minority. In this first interdisciplinary book on Asian and black masculinities in literature and popular culture, Chon-Smith explores the inspiring, contradictory, hostile, resonant, and unarticulated ways in which the formation of Asian and black racial masculinity has affected contemporary America.

Author : Ronald L. Jackson,Jamie E. Moshin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415623070

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Communicating Marginalized Masculinities by Ronald L. Jackson,Jamie E. Moshin Pdf

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities. While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a wide scope of readers.

Author : Peter Gossage,Robert Rutherdale
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774835664

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Making Men, Making History by Peter Gossage,Robert Rutherdale Pdf

What has it meant to be a man in Canada? Percy Nobbs, architect, fisherman, fencer; Andy Paull, residential school survivor and athlete; Yves Charbonneau, jazz musician and commune member; “James,” black and gay in postwar Windsor. Who were these men, and how did they identify as masculine? Populated with figures both well known and unknown, Making Men, Making History reveals the dissonance between ideals of manhood and masculinity and the everyday lives of Canadian men and boys. This collection showcases some of the best new work in masculinity studies, exploring these themes entirely in Canadian historical settings.

Author : James Messerschmidt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761907183

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Crime as Structured Action by James Messerschmidt Pdf

The author of this volume skillfully demonstrates that a vital component to understanding crime is to be able to view it as more than a single activity. James W. Messerschmidt argues that crime operates subtly through a complex series of gender, race and class practices and these interwoven elements must be seen as part of all social existence, not viewed independently.

Author : Ghaill, Mairtin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335157815

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Making Of Men by Ghaill, Mairtin Pdf

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools while policing their own and others' sexuality. The text focuses on the students' confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences; and upon how schools actively produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. The author attempts to do full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectivities and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities.

Author : James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442225428

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Crime as Structured Action by James W. Messerschmidt Pdf

James W. Messerschmidt’s groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. The book also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality, and their relationships to crime.