Black Male-Black Female Relationships: The Perceptions of 155 Middle-Class Black Men

1983 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel A. Cazenave
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Female Relationships

“An Air of Expectancy”

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saida Grundy
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Male College ◽  
And Gender

This qualitative study explores formations of masculinity among students at a historically black all-male college, offering insights into how the institution crafts the manhood of its students in accordance with gender and class ideologies about black male respectability, heteronormativity, and male hegemony. While a plethora of studies on poverty, deviance, and marginalization have highlighted black men “in crisis,” this article examines middle-class black men and explores sites of conflict and difference for this latter group. Three critical insights into middle-class black masculinity are revealed by this approach: first, that men are institutionally “branded” through class and gender ideologies; second, that the exceptionality of high-achieving black men is politicized to endorse class conflict with other black men; and finally, that sexuality and class performances are inseparably linked through men’s sexual consumption of black women.

The lords of humankind re-visited

2003 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE HALL
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Men ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
The Way

This article uses the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, and the way in which it was represented in Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of it, to reflect on the ways in which Britons thought of themselves as an ’imperial people’, ’lords of humankind’, fit to rule over others. The Whig reforms of the 1830s had brought the enfranchisement of large numbers of middle-class men, and the emancipation of the enslaved across the British Empire. Excavating the assumptions of the abolitionists who gathered at the Convention allows us to see how new hierarchies of difference were encoded by 1840, placing freed black men, middle-class women and Irish Catholics on the margins of the new body politic.

The development of a Credible Virtual Clinician (VC) Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening via Telehealth Applications for and by Black Men: A Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danyell Wilson-Howard ◽  
Melissa J. Vilaro ◽  
Jordan M. Neil ◽  
Eric J. Cooks ◽  
Lauren N. Griffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Healthcare Intervention ◽  
Crc Screening

BACKGROUND Traditionally, the promotion of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among Black men was delivered by Community Health Workers (CHW), Patient Navigators, and decision aids (printed text or video media) at clinics and in the community setting. A novel approach to increase CRC screening of Black men includes developing and utilizing a patient-centered, tailored message delivered via virtual human technology in the privacy of one’s home. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to incorporate the perceptions of Black men in the development of a Virtual Clinician (VC) designed to deliver precision messages promoting the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit for CRC screening among Black men in a future clinical trial. METHODS Focus groups of Black men were recruited to understand their perceptions of a Black-male VC. Specifically, these men identified source characteristics that would enhance the credibility of the VC. The MAIN Model which examines how an interface features affect the user’s psychology through four Affordances: Modality, Agency, Interactivity, and Navigability was used to assess the presumed credibility of the VC and likability of the app from the focus group transcripts. Each affordance triggers heuristic cues that stimulate a positive or negative perception of trustworthiness, believability, and understandability thereby increasing source credibility. RESULTS Twenty-five Black men were recruited from the community and contributed to the development of three iterations of a Black male VC over an eighteen-month time span. Feedback from the man enhanced the visual appearance of the VC including its movement, clothing, facial expressions, and environmental surroundings. Heuristics including social presence, novelty, and authority were all recognized by the final version of the VC and creditably was established. The VC was referred to as “brother-doctor” and participants stated “wanting to interact with ALEX over their regular doctor”. CONCLUSIONS Involving Black men in the development of a digital healthcare intervention is critical. This population is burdened by cancer health disparities and incorporating their perceptions in tele-health interventions, will create awareness of the need to develop targeted messages for Black men

Does Emotional Expression Moderate Implicit Racial Bias? Examining Bias Following Smiling and Angry Primes

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 570-590
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Raissi ◽  
Jennifer R. Steele
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Contrast Effect ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Implicit Racial Bias ◽  
Affect Misattribution Procedure

Given the pervasiveness of prejudice, researchers have become increasingly interested in examining racial bias at the intersection of race and other social and perceptual categories that have the potential to disrupt these negative attitudes. Across three studies, we examined whether the emotional expression of racial exemplars would moderate implicit racial bias. We found that racial bias on the Affect Misattribution Procedure only emerged in response to angry but not smiling Black male faces in comparison to White (Study 1) or White and Asian (Study 3) male faces with similar emotional expressions. Racial bias was also found toward Asian targets (Studies 2 and 3), but not only following angry primes. These findings suggest that negative stereotypes about Black men can create a contrast effect, making racial bias toward smiling faces less likely to be expressed in the presence of angry Black male faces.

scholarly journals Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (12) ◽  
pp. 4071-4111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcella Alsan ◽  
Owen Garrick ◽  
Grant Graziani
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Cardiovascular Mortality ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
White Male ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Stage Design

We study the effect of physician workforce diversity on the demand for preventive care among African American men. In an experiment in Oakland, California, we randomize black men to black or non-black male medical doctors. We use a two-stage design, measuring decisions before (pre-consultation) and after (post-consultation) meeting their assigned doctor. Subjects select a similar number of preventives in the pre-consultation stage, but are much more likely to select every preventive service, particularly invasive services, once meeting with a racially concordant doctor. Our findings suggest black doctors could reduce the black-white male gap in cardiovascular mortality by 19 percent. (JEL I12, I14, C93)

From New Black Realism to Tyler Perry

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kameron J. Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
Female Audience

In the midst of a revival of gospel theater aimed at Black female Christian audiences, Tyler Perry mastered a successful approach to Black independent gospel plays. Eventually, Perry transferred his work to the film screen, exploring the struggles of Black women in their relationships with Black men. While his depiction of Black men has garnered much controversy, Perry characterizes Black masculinity throughout his romantic storylines using a formulaic approach seeking to uplift his predominately Black female audience, while exploring the faults and various tropes of Black masculinity. In Perry’s female-oriented romantic storylines, Black men are usually categorized as an affluent shape-shifter, neglected love interest, transformed hard worker, crooked hoodlum, or Black messiah redux. Throughout this study, Perry’s usage of these characterizations is explored. Unlike 1990s New Black Realism films, which could have driven the explosion of female-oriented gospel-themed works, Perry fuses Black theological perceptions of manhood with a patriarchal-centered exploration of Black womanhood.

Black Female Counselor and the Black Male Client

1975 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Bryson ◽  
Harold Bardo ◽  
Constance Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Black Male ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Male Client

I Fight for a Living

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Moore
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Sporting Culture ◽  
Collective Group ◽  
White Manhood ◽  
Jim Crow Era

At its heart, I Fight for a Living is a book about black men who came of age in the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow era--a time when the remaking of white manhood was at its most intense, placing vigor and physicality at the center of the construction of manliness. The book uses the stories of black fighters’ lives, from 1880 to 1915, to explore how working-class black men used prizefighting and the sporting culture to assert their manhood in a country that denied their equality, and to examine the reactions by the black middle class and white middle class toward these black fighters. Through these stories, the book explores how the assertion of this working-class manliness confronted American ideas of race and manliness. While other works on black fighters have explored black boxers as individuals, this book seeks to study these men as a collective group while providing a localized and racialized response to black working-class manhood. It was a tough bargain to risk one’s body to prove manhood, but black men across the globe took that chance.

Self-Portraiture and Representations of Blackness in the Work of Donald Rodney

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (45) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Alice Correia
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
The Self ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Home Town

This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the dominant framings of black men as delinquent, sexually deviant, and a menace to society. The work of Rasheed Araeen is discussed, with particular relevance to his influential use of self-portraiture. The author also discusses mainstream media’s construction of the black male deviant with respect to aspects of the newspaper coverage of the “rioting” that took place in Rodney’s home town, Birmingham, in the mid-1980s.

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