Williams, R. Y. (2008). Black Women and Black Power. OAH Magazine of History,22(3), 22-26. Part of a special issue on the Black Power movement. The obfuscating and incomplete visual and historical narrative of the Black Power era is being shaped and enriched by research attuned to women and gender. Public attention… read more
Masculinity Studies (MS)
‘You ain’t my daddy!’: Black male teachers and the politics of surrogate fatherhood
Brockenbrough, E. (2012). ‘You ain’t my daddy!’: Black male teachers and the politics of surrogate fatherhood. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, 16(4), 357-372. Recent scholarship on male teachers across several national contexts has investigated the dilemmas of hegemonic masculinity for male educators while only recently beginning to examine race as a mediator… read more
Masculinised Discourses within Education and the Construction of Black Male Identities amongst African Caribbean Youth
Wright, C., Weekes, D., Mcglaughlin, A., & Webb, D. (1998). Masculinised Discourses within Education and the Construction of Black Male Identities amongst African Caribbean Youth. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 19(1), 75-87. Boys in general, and Black boys in particular, are being excluded from school in ever increasing and disproportionate numbers,… read more
They wear the mask: Hypervulnerability and hypermasculine aggression among African American males in an urban remedial disciplinary school
Cassidy, E. F., & Stevenson Jr, H. C. (2005). They wear the mask: Hypervulnerability and hypermasculine aggression among African American males in an urban remedial disciplinary school. Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma, 11(4), 53-74. Interpersonal violence represents a serious health risk for African American male adolescents, especially those in urban environments.… read more