What’s the Problem with Black Masculinities? Black Men and Racial Patriarchy #SOASBlackMasculinities A discovery workshop seminar by Dr Ornette D Clennon Manchester Metropolitan University

In your groups, take 5 mins to decide on 3 key words to describe what you see and tweet them using “Key words: Image of a Black Man” #SOASBlackMasculinities

Discovering a wider picture In your groups, take 5 mins to decide on 3 key words to describe what you see in the link and tweet them using “Key words: Images of Black Men” #SOASBlackMasculinities Internet images of Black Men

Discovering a wider picture In your groups, take 10 minutes to discuss why you chose the keywords for those images Tweet summary of findings using “Summary of Images of Black Men:…” #SOASBlackMasculinities Present your findings to the whole group

Discovering a wider picture In your groups, take 5 mins to decide on 3 key words to describe what you see in the link and tweet them using “Key words: Images of White Men” #SOASBlackMasculinities Internet images of White Men

Discovering a wider picture In your groups, take 5 mins to decide on 3 key words to describe what you see and tweet them using “Key words: Images of Gay White Men” #SOASBlackMasculinities Internet images of Gay White Men

Discovering a wider picture What are the differences between (10mins) Internet images of White Men and Internet images of Gay White Men Tweet a summary of your answers using “Diff in perception between White and Gay White men:…” to #SOASBlackMasculinities Discuss with the whole group

Discovering a wider picture In your groups, take 5 mins to decide on 3 key words to describe what you see and tweet them using “Key words: Images of Gay Black Men” #SOASBlackMasculinities Internet images of Gay Black Men

Discovering a wider picture What are the differences between (10mins) Internet images of Black Men and Internet images of Gay Black Men Tweet a summary of your answers using “Diff in perception between Black and Gay Black men:…” to #SOASBlackMasculinities Discuss with the whole group

How is Black Masculinity popularly perceived and how is it different to perception of White Masculinity? ‘Politics of Representation’ (Hall, 1997) In your groups, discuss this for 15 mins, explaining why you think what you think Tweet a summary of your discussion using “Summary of perception of Black Masculinity:…”to #SOASBlackMasculinities Let’s take a 5 mins break, here!

Racial Patriarchy An Introduction to some background concepts…. Universal Subject where the ‘“eye” is a product of history reproduced by education’ (Bourdieu 1984: 3) White supremacy (Gillborn, 2005) ‘Politics of Representation’ (Hall, 1997) Inverted male gaze (Patterson & Elliott, 2002) “when the gaze is turned on itself, men are more likely to move through a range of responses such as rejection, identification and desire” (male gaze, privileged male heterosexuality (Mulvey, 2009)) “Blackness” as market commodity (Kvifte, 2001). Black Hypermasculinity as a fetish “White elites reduced Black men to their bodies, and identified their muscles and their penises as their most important sites” (Collins, 2005, p. 57) Control of sexuality (Foucault, 1977) - discipline power

Racial Patriarchy Universal Subject where the ‘“eye” is a product of history reproduced by education’ (Bourdieu 1984: 3) White supremacy (Gillborn, 2005) Discuss this in your groups for 10 mins. How do you see this in your daily lives? What are its effects on you? Tweet your findings using “My exp of universal subject is……” to #SOASBlackMasculinities #racialpatriarchy Present your thoughts to the whole group

Racial Patriarchy Inverted male gaze (Patterson & Elliott, 2002) “when the gaze is turned on itself, men are more likely to move through a range of responses such as rejection, identification and desire” (male gaze, privileged male hetereosexuality (Mulvey, 2009)) “Blackness” as market commodity (Kvifte, 2001) ‘Politics of Representation’ (Hall, 1997) Discuss this in your groups for 10 mins. How do you see this in your daily lives? What are its effects on you? Tweet your findings using “My exp of inverted male gaze is……” to #SOASBlackMasculinities #racialpatriarchy Present your thoughts to the whole group

Racial Patriarchy Black Hypermasculinity as a fetish “White elites reduced Black men to their bodies, and identified their muscles and their penises as their most important sites” (Collins, 2005, p. 57) Control of sexuality (Foucault, 1977) – discipline power Discuss this in your groups for 10 mins. How do you see this in your daily lives? What are its effects on you? Tweet your findings using “My exp of inverted male gaze is……” to #SOASBlackMasculinities #racialpatriarchy Present your thoughts to the whole group

Racial Patriarchy Take 10 mins to devise an action plan for resisting the effects of racial patriarchy. Use the following stages to structure your plan. – Stage 1: ‘Consciousness-raising’ (Freire, 1973) – How will you keep awareness of this? – Stage 2: Problematising the issue (Montero, 2009) – How will you challenge it? – Stage 3: Moving forward (Martin-Baro, 1994) – What steps will you take to challenge this ideology? Tweet a summary of your plans using “My action plan to resist racial pat’ is…..” #SOASBlackMasculinities #racialpatriarchy Present plans to whole class Discuss and continue the discussion on #SOASBlackMasculinities #racialpatriarchy

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