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Title: The Ghetto Sophisticates: Performing Black Masculinity, Saving Lost Souls, and Serving as Leaders of the New School
Language: English
Authors: Gause, C. P.
Source: Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Spr-Sum 2005 9(1):17-31.
Availability: Caddo Gap Press. 3145 Geary Blvd, PMB 275, San Francisco, CA 94118. Tel: 415-666-3012; Fax: 415-666-3552; e-mail: caddogap@aol.com; Web site: http://www.caddogap.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2005
Intended Audience: Practitioners
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Masculinity, Community Control, Acculturation, Role Models, Positive Reinforcement, African American Students, Social Justice, Researchers, Instructional Leadership, Politics, Interpersonal Relationship, African American Family
ISSN: 1080-5400
Abstract: The educational discourse chronicling the experiences of African American educators continues to be limited, while the anthropological and sociological literature appears to be more inclusive. Educational literature in regards to African American educators since 1966 continues to focus on how African American educators maintain the status quo and how the dominant middle class values of society are reproduced through dominant pedagogy. This is the duality in which African Americans must struggle. The stigmatization of African-American males has been embraced not only by European Americans, but by African-Americans as well. The dominant culture continues to perpetuate negative imagery of African American males through media, film, and music. National broadcasts of African-American males being apprehended by law enforcement locally and regionally is a daily ritual. This imagery further perpetuates the demise of the African-American male. Damen (1987) states that "culture is learned and shared human patterns or models for living; day-to-day living patterns; those models and patterns pervade all aspects of human social interaction; and culture is mankind's primary adaptive mechanism." Based on this definition of culture then what the media reports constructs a framework of stigmatization of the black male through the culture of the media. Media representations of black masculinity operate within the cultural politics of blackness on yet another important (and for some) oppositional front. This figure of black masculinity marks the racial and cultural boundaries of a counter-hegemonic blackness, which stands for the black nation, the black family, and the authentic black (male) self. This author suggests that educators must eradicate negative (re) presentations of black males with antistereotypical images that showcase the positive role models and individuals that are present in the African-American community. (Contains 5 notes.)
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Number of References: 44
Entry Date: 2008
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