... among and between many of the most persistent and compelling stereotypes of black masculinity, including the down-low brother and the hip-hop star, and to set them against the backdrop of a postindustrial black urban landscape. Thinking through the relationship between representations of black...

... the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense only by means of an account of masculinity. The book looks across historical events and memoirs (beginning with the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967 when miscegenation laws were struck down) to reveal...

...This chapter offers a reading of Claude McKay’s 1928 novel Home to Harlem, focusing on the predominately masculine lens through which he explores the variety and scope of black urban diasporic life—its global and multiregional perspectives. It considers Home to Harlem...

... Boyle Heights police shootings in power Alexander M Jacqui Black masculinity Gordon Edmund T Hardt Michael heteronormativity masculinity morality Negri Antonio performance respectability social production social structures Foley Douglas heterosexuality middle class working class Davis...

... Dickinson Emily Home Depot security in house suspension center IHSC power Black women California Youth Authority Los Padrinos Senate Bill 650 classrooms Munoz José Latina students Black masculinity gender Prison Masculinity Race Ethnography Ideological construction Social structures South...

...The fourth chapter presents the harsh realities that young Black men face in the gendered social hierarchy that presents a very limited set of, often problematic, solutions as models. Situated within a society that advances violent expressions of masculine behaviour, the stories of Black male...

...This chapter focuses on homophobia and the anxious nature of masculinity in American society. In April 2007, the shock jock Don Imus, whom NBC had hired to provide “irreverent” and “controversial” drive-time comedy, was loudly criticized because of his irreverent and controversial characterization...

...This chapter examines the multiple and competing meanings of heteronormative manhood among Filipino navy veterans and their families living in San Diego, California since the mid-1940s. More specifically, it considers how Filipino masculinity is constructed within a transnational context...

... to this phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the reasons for the public silence surrounding the issue. Given South Korea’s mandatory military conscription system, the chapter suggests that the sanctioned masculinity in the military—and how it is practiced and engendered—should be a major issue for those concerned...

...This chapter concentrates on social genders—the everyday regime of masculinity and femininity—as a regime produced through their quadratic inter-relation. Subject texts include Absolutely Fabulous, Bridesmaids, Sex and the City, Bond films, The Big Bang Theory, and "Bro-mance" films. Clooney George...

... coverage, films, television programs, and other media. The book explains how video gaming both challenged and reinforced existing ideals of masculinity, and how efforts by industry advocates and cultural critics alike to make sense of gaming helped shape and restrict gamer identity. Using diverse archival...

...Chapter two continues to discuss how the 1960s Peace Corps embodied a racialized, gendered vision of modernity that linked economic integration to freedom, frontier masculinity, and global brotherhood. Placing these discourse in the context of late-1950s best-selling novels, then tracing them...

... of black masculinity and historical consciousness. adaptation Baldwin James Gunn James marginalization novelization speculative fiction authorship Barnes Steven Enterprise starship Kirk Captain Nichols Nichelle paraliterary texts racial identity Roddenberry Gene Shatner William Star Trek...

... destinations, the chapter shows how racialized masculinity and heroism are deployed in appeals to “remember properly.” It suggessts that in Bataan and Corregidor, the act of touring historical battlefields and military routes is simultaneously an emotional and ideological remembering of a benevolent American...

... other women to pursue their dreams, even while appeasing period gender expectations. On the other hand, four butter portraits of Theodore Roosevelt offer an opportunity to examine ideas about the nature of masculinity. The chapter discusses that the butter portraits illustrate the high points...

...This chapter examines John Rechy’s documentary novel The Sexual Outlaw (1977) and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Line of the Sun (1989), which contest patriarchal and heterosexist masculinity as the singular site of subject formation. Rechy’s and Ortiz Cofer’s works...

... “spectacular impotence” is a minor trend in modern erotica produced for women, opposing the popular assumption that the audience for pornography is male. The chapter concludes with an examination of the phallic masculinity constructed in traditional porn, including the active and passive roles of spectators...

...In late nineteenth-century England, “mannish” women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? This book illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female...

...This chapter explores the homoerotic subtext of the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). Historically, athletic prowess and a consuming passion for sports have been defining aspects of masculinity in America. In his ESPN essay “Jock Culture,” Robert...