Masculinity, War and Violence by Ann-Dorte Christensen Palle Rasmussen

Author:Ann-Dorte Christensen, Palle Rasmussen [Ann-Dorte Christensen, Palle Rasmussen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138222953
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Black masculinities in American warfare

The black radical tradition has always critiqued American (and Western) racialism and capitalism’s effects on black folk, and this topic has evolved in research areas on black men. Studies that focused on ‘conflict theory’ compared black men’s oppressive status in the USA to colonialism and critiqued how black masculinity was constructed as an emasculated subordinate to a hetero-normative ideal of (white American) hegemonic masculinity (Connell, 2002; Staples, 1983), which feeds the ‘tangle of pathology’ in the structure of the black family (Clark, 1965; Frazier, 1939; U.S. Department of Labor, 1965). Autoethnographic writing highlighted the pathology, the personal and collective traumas it produced, and the social theater of war that followed within the black communities via sexism, homophobia, self-hate, and fratricide between black men (Staples, 1995).

Later, as researchers began to focus on masculinity in its plurality, the shift to exploring issues of men in more specific contexts (Hearn et al., 2012) led to a focus on black masculinities (Jackson II & Hopson, 2011; Neal, 2013). Consequently, attention has been paid to the internecine conflicts with black men on multiple levels, such as the gender divide (Hopkinson & Moore, 2006; Kitwana, 2002) as well as the economic crisis dealing with the unemployment and underemployment of black men (Hall, Livingston, Henderson, Fisher, & Hines, 2007; Malveau, 2004; Wilson, 2012). Amid the current sociopolitical climate in the USA (e.g. the #BlackLivesMatter movement in response to police brutality and state injustice against black folk), there is a challenge to implement a space for progressive theorization and praxis about black masculinities (Chandler, 2011; Mutua, 2006).

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