Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-87277-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on how African American males experience masculinity politics, and how U.S. sexism and racial ranking influences relationships between black and white males, as well as relationships with black and white women. By considering the African American male experience as a form of sexism, Lemelle proposes that the only way for the social order to successfully accommodate African American males is to fundamentally eliminate all sexism, particularly as it relates to the organization of families.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lemelle Jr, Anthony J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Black Masculinity as Sexual Politics 2. Controlling Masculine Hierarchies 3. Penetrating Matters in Black Male Domination 4. Black Masculinity and Ideologies of Inferiority 5. Black Male Citizenship Trouble 6. Black Male Homosexual Gender Trouble 7. Feminizing and Hypermasculizing Black Male Socialization: Rehabilitating Black Masculine Heterosexuality 8. Expectations for Black Male Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr. is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at John Jay College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Black Male Deviance (Praeger, 1997), co-editor of Readings in the Sociology of AIDS (Prentice Hall, 1999), and Free at Last?: Black America in the 21st Century (Transaction, 2006).