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2025, Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce

Recenzowane niżej tomy opublikowano w serii bardzo cennych, ale -jak się wydaje -stosunkowo słabo w Polsce spopularyzowanych wydawnictw poświęconych dziejom wyznaniowym epoki nowożytnej ukazujących się pod ogólnym tytułem Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung i patronatem Die Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum działającego przy uniwersytecie we Freiburgu. Należy przypomnieć, że w tej samej serii, pod wspólnym tytułem Die Territorien des Reichs im Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung. Land und Konfession 1500-1650 oraz redakcją Antona Schindlinga (Tybinga) i Waltera Zieglera (Monachium), ukazało się w latach 1989-97 siedem tomów bardzo instruktywnych prac zbiorowych poświęconych stosunkom wyznaniowym na terytoriach Rzeszy Niemieckiej w XVI i pierwszej połowie XVII w. 1 W tomach poświęconych Rzeszy stosowano konsekwentnie pożyteczny schemat geograficzno-problemowy, już jednak w kolejnych tomach serii, poświęconych Węgrom i Skandynawii, wydawcy zdecydowali się odejść od wcześniej wypracowanego systemu, chcąc być może mocniej uwzględnić w ten sposób problematykę swoistą dla omawianych terytoriów 2 . 1

2025, International social science and humanities studies

This work argues that so-called Black people integrated White supremacy via the universality and ontology of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism, and as such their so-called Black Modernity, in the Atlantic especially, is itself a form of White supremacy. In other words, Black folks in America and the diaspora, following their interpellation, embourgeoisement, and integration into the universality and ontology of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism by their White colonial slave masters via slavery became Black Protestant agents of White supremacy, i.e., Black/White supremacists. They (the Black American, especially) are now used by the upper-class of white owners and high-level executives in an American global mercantilism that is tantamount to the colonial project of the Europeans to perpetuate White supremacy and the inferiority of people of color around the world via their form of labor and labor power in the universality and ontology of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

2025, Applying an Ecocritical Lens in Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove

This paper examines the violence towards nature in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove from an ecocritical perspective. Both novels, written in 1985 and set in the American West during the 19th century, offer the possibility of examining the continuous dichotomy and interplay between history, cultural myths, and social structures. I aim to show that McCarthy and McMurtry deconstruct romanticised visions of the American frontier to expose the atrocities committed in the Old West towards nature. McCarthy and McMurtry's works embody the principles of ecocriticism, illustrating the complex and often destructive relationship between humanity and nature. Both authors highlight the brutality inflicted upon the natural world through their vivid portrayals of the Old West and through the murder and lack of iconic species like the buffalo and the antelope to symbolise the broader ecological and cultural shifts of the era. Aside from that, both authors expose and criticise the exploitation of natural resources in the Old West, specifically through the representation of buffalo hunting. The authors emphasise the irreversible ecological consequences of human greed, exposing buffalo hunting as a nostalgic yet destructive practice, symbolising the decline of the Old West. Furthermore, the antelope occupies the space of the buffalo, which shows the lack of learning from the past ecological destruction. Both novels implicitly expose the irreversible damage caused by human greed and the urgent need for a conscious interaction with the environment, an interaction that recognises the intrinsic value of all living beings. As such, McCarthy and McMurtry's works stand as clear reminders of the ecological losses of the past and the moral need to protect the natural world in the present. Following the framework of ecocriticism, this study analyses how both McCarthy and McMurtry move from the first wave's focus on the natural world to the second wave's inclusion of social critique, particularly regarding eco-injustice. Finally, this study examines the symbolic role of buffalos, antelopes, dogs and wolves in both novels.

2025

This article examines how Michael Jackson's 1984 stretcher photo and Tupac Shakur's 1994 stretcher photo scrambles the disciplinary boundaries surrounding the academic study of religion. Drawing inspiration from Manning Marable's concept of Blackwater, this study explores the complexities of black iconicity's relationship to black suffering in the modern world. Through a critical analysis of the production and circulation of Jackson and Shakur's respective stretcher photos, the following account highlights the disruptive force of black iconicity in modern society, unraveling its implications for religious meaning. By tarrying with these haunting photographic representations, this article prompts a reevaluation of the relation between (anti)blackness, visual culture, religion, and popular culture.

2025, Tese (Doutorado). Programa de Pós-graduação em História Social, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de História

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, por meio de processos criminais, os significados de crimes envolvendo homens pretos e pardos (ex-escravos e seus descendentes) como vítimas ou réus, de 1888 a 1928 na cidade de Oliveira, Minas Gerais. A pretensão é investigar o que os delitos envolvendo esses homens podiam expressar sobre as suas experiências raciais, expectativas de liberdade e como se constituíram suas noções de masculinidades. O recorte temporal acompanha a virada para a Primeira República, com a migração para um novo Código Penal, em 1890. Ademais, abarca as quatro primeiras décadas do pós-abolição no país. No mesmo contexto, a presença de pretos e pardos nos tribunais revelava suas tentativas de acesso ao que concebiam como direitos e cidadania. A partir de diversos documentos, intentamos aprofundar os itinerários, sociabilidades e a relação desses sujeitos com a Justiça, bem como as simbologias das nomenclaturas raciais acionadas nos processos. Município predominantemente rural, a cidade de Oliveira era caracterizada pela presença de redes de poder local consolidadas, onde se destacavam os agentes da Justiça (grande parte deles, oriundos de famílias escravistas). É nesse cenário marcado por hierarquias que egressos do cativeiro e seus descendentes se empenhavam na reelaboração de suas novas formas de vida. Partindo de uma perspectiva de estudos sobre gênero, esse trabalho delineia contribuir para o entendimento das singularidades e experiências masculinas negras. Almejamos também colaborar para uma visualização mais ampla dos trajetos de liberdade em Minas Gerais.

2025

This paper examines the emerging phenomenon of algorithmic colonialism and its implications for Indigenous data sovereignty in Cameroon. Through critical analysis of case studies across Cameroon's diverse ethno-linguistic communities, we demonstrate how contemporary data extraction practices perpetuate colonial power dynamics by appropriating, commodifying, and misrepresenting Indigenous knowledge systems. The research employs a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative interviews with Indigenous knowledge keepers (n=32), computational analysis of algorithmic systems operating in Cameroon, and participatory action research within affected communities in the Northwest, West, Southwest, and East regions. Findings reveal systematic patterns of epistemological violence enacted through algorithmic systems that fail to recognize Cameroonian Indigenous data governance frameworks. We propose a decolonial framework for algorithmic justice that centers Cameroonian Indigenous data sovereignty principles while offering practical guidelines for ethical engagement with Indigenous data. This framework contributes to broader discussions on digital ethics by prioritizing relational accountability, contextual integrity, and cultural sustainability in technological development within the Cameroonian context.

2025, Reading Research Quarterly

This article reports findings from an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of a group of 11-to 14-year-old black males who called themselves "the cool kids." The study is framed using theories that view literacy as a social and cultural practice involving multiple sign-and-symbol systems. Two research questions guided the study: How did coolness relate to literacy among "the cool kids," and what symbolic patterns helped to shape these relations? The findings describe how race, gender, and pop culture marked the group's use of language and style and reveal how coolness, as a pop-cultural artifact of black manhood, contributed to the literacy practices of the young men and to the construction of their symbolic selves. These findings contribute to building a theory of black masculine literacies.

2025

The past year has been rather taxing emotionally, mentally and physically. It has not only been difficult for me, but for those around me. So, I would like to thank these people for all that they have done for me: Lynlee Howard-Payne, for being an extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and entertaining supervisor. There is no way I would or could have produced this piece of research without your constant guidance, constructive criticism and encouragement. Thank you for having so much passion for psychology, for research and for my thesis. Natasha Faria, my fiancée, for being by my side at all times, despite the fact that I had to ignore her for a large portion of the day on most days. Thank you for your sacrifices. You have no idea how much your support has meant to me, from the day you helped me think up the topic to the day I handed the hard copies in. Someone who believed in me was the most important thing that I needed. All of the lecturers who so kindly allowed me access to their classes and generally helped me out on the organizational side, including Yaseen Ally,

2025, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

Centrally drawing upon the work of Calvin Warren and Sylvia Wynter, I perform a meta-criticism of critical reviews of Barry Jenkins’ 2016 film Moonlight to explore two related concepts: the myth of being and the darkfaggot. I argue these reviews unwittingly adhere to the myth of being, an ideological structure instituting subjects as sovereign co-identifying beings contra the non-be-longing of the ontologically unsovereign black. These reviews by black critics inherit the myth of being’s differentiating imperative such that the reassignment of a queer identity to Moonlight functions to reproduce an intramural structural position of otherness I term the “darkfaggot.” The darkfaggot is an idea of redoubled non-be-longing—that is, non-be-longing and non-existence—whose function is to mystify the black’s starvation of being that conditions the satiation of the human subject’s hunger to be-long. In the end, I decipher Moonlight’s non-answer of the “identity question” as an implicit argument about the impossibility of black be-longing, and thus black queerness as a mode of be-longing, within totalizing conditions of dispossessive
violence.

2025, Cadernos De Gênero E Diversidade

Este artigo examina a necessidade de ampliar a noção de gênero além do feminino e destaca a contribuição do feminismo negro para os estudos sobre masculinidades negras. Realizamos uma revisão bibliográfica de teóricas renomadas que refletem sobre estas questões de gênero, como Joan Scott e Raewyn Connell, além de autoras que utilizam a epistemologia feminista negra para compreender as masculinidades negras, como bell hooks, Patrícia Hill Collins, Ângela Davis e Sueli Carneiro. Exploramos como homens negros têm abordado teórica e artisticamente suas masculinidades, por meio dos estudos sobre masculinidades negras. Concluímos que as discussões sobre o masculino devem ser consideradas ao estudar as relações de gênero, pois são fundamentais para combater o sexismo e outras formas de opressão, como o racismo. O racismo afeta a posição dos homens brancos e negros na estrutura patriarcal da sociedade, o que tem um impacto direto na experiência da masculinidade pelos homens negros. Os homens negros têm reivindicado o direito de falar sobre suas próprias vivências e experiências, buscando compreender as contradições de serem simultaneamente opressores e oprimidos.

2025

Quigley, Division 24 May 2025 Conference

2025

African American Males’ Perception of the Barriers in Higher Education

2025

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender as raízes sócio-históricas da constituição de paternidades negras, contrastando com representações contra-hegemônicas presentes em filmes do cinema nacional. A investigação sobre as paternidades negras parte da necessidade de aliar aos estudos sobre masculinidades e paternidades, os estudos das relações raciais, de forma que se possa compreender as consequências do racismo estrutural na construção destas subjetividades. São sustentações teóricas deste estudo o Construcionismo Social, que busca justamente, associado aos estudos de gênero e raça, compreender a construção das subjetividades a partir de um olhar sóciohistórico e crítico, tendo a linguagem como constituída e ao mesmo tempo constituinte no processo de subjetivação; e os estudos culturais, à medida que imergem nas discussões acerca das identidades Pós-modernas, nos modos de subjetivação e produção de sentido. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como qualitativa, sendo utilizada a metodologia da bricolagem, engendrada nos Estudos Culturais. Além disso, foram realizadas análises fílmicas a partir de dois longas-metragens, O assalto ao trem pagador (ROBERTO FARIAS, 1962); Gonzaga: de pai pra filho (BRENO SILVEIRA, 2012) e um curta-metragem, O jogo (CLEMENTINO JUNIOR, 2017), interpretando os filmes como práticas sociais. Foi constatado que existe um cenário atual ainda incipiente acerca do tema, visto que foram encontrados poucos estudos brasileiros que tenham como objeto de pesquisa as paternidades negras. Os resultados deste estudo apontam para as consequências subjetivas do racismo estrutural na constituição das masculinidades e paternidades negras. A partir do levantamento sócio-histórico descrito ao longo do trabalho, aliado à compreensão de que os desdobramentos desse processo persistem atualmente em nossa sociedade, foi possível destacar as seguintes ponderações: existe relação entre os discursos contra-hegemônicos e as possibilidades de ressignificação na construção das identidades e subjetivações dos pais negros na sociedade brasileira, sendo que nos amparamos no construcionismo social para afirmar e confirmar essa relação; os discursos contra-hegemônicos funcionam como forças de resistência nesse processo que envolve as dinâmicas de poder, apontando caminhos diversos e até mesmo contrários aos hegemônicos, abrindo brechas para novas construções, para novas performances, em termos de masculinidades e de paternidades negras, novas formas de se relacionar e ocupar espaços, possibilitando e criando novos arranjos sociais. Através dos exemplos trazidos nas análises fílmicas foi possível traçar representações e perspectivas que questionam os padrões hegemônicos, deslocam posicionamentos e demonstram outros modos de ser e se identificar como pais negros, outras possibilidades, diante das influências históricas referentes às populações negras.

2025, Philosophy Study

This work provides a descriptive analysis of the so-called Black American community whose practical consciousness is a result of adopting, and reacting to, both white values and discriminatory terms to constitute their practical activities and so-called cultural identity. Outside of the practices associated with these values and discriminatory terms, there is no sui generis Black American identity and community with its own form of system and social integration that is different from, or diametrically opposes, the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism of their white counterparts, which would emerge out of that relationship.

2025

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) frameworks are essential for fostering equitable opportunities and dismantling systemic barriers within societal institutions. These initiatives enhance workplace productivity, improve decision-making, and drive innovation (Page, 2007; Hunt, Layton, & Prince, 2015). However, recent policy shifts, particularly Executive Order 13950, have sought to dismantle DEI efforts, framing them as divisive rather than as tools for equity and progress (Office of the Federal Register, 2020). This paper critically examines the impact of anti-DEI policies on workforce equity, educational access, and economic growth through a policy analysis and review of empirical research. Findings indicate that restricting DEI programs exacerbates systemic inequities, stifles innovation, and weakens institutional effectiveness (Dobbin & Kalev, 2016; Thomas & Ely, 1996). Additionally, this study highlights the broader societal and economic costs of dismantling DEI initiatives, demonstrating that inclusive policies lead to higher productivity, improved institutional resilience, and enhanced social cohesion. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for sustaining DEI efforts in the face of legislative challenges and underscores the necessity of institutional commitments to diversity for long-term societal advancement.

2025, Journal of Counseling Psychology

U.S. commercial women rappers often promote a "thick hourglass" body ideal in their music. This qualitative study, guided by social comparison theory and self-discrepancy theory, explores how 10 Black and 10 White Dutch women rap fans, aged 18-25, compared their actual body image with this ideal and the emotional consequences that result. A hybrid comparative thematic analysis revealed that both Black and White respondents view the thick ideal as dominant in women rap and part of Black culture. They consider it a standard of beauty and sexiness, when achieved naturally and not through plastic surgery. Comparing their actual body image to this ideal can evoke positive outcomes, such as body satisfaction and the motivation to work toward this ideal through exercise or by choosing clothing that better expresses it. However, it can also lead to negative body images and emotions, such as insecurity, especially when this ideal is perceived as difficult or impossible to attain, or when peers or family expect conformity to this ideal. For Black women, comparison to the thick ideal may result in more positive outcomes, and this ideal is more frequently endorsed by their social context compared with White women. These findings indicate that for rap fans, the Afrocentric thick ideal is more relevant than a Eurocentric thin ideal, highlighting the importance of developing healthy body interventions targeting gender and cultural and contextual beliefs. Further, this knowledge can increase practitioners' ability to integrate an influential media genre when working with young adults across different cultures. Public Significance Statement This study found that the Afrocentric thick hourglass body ideal in U.S. women rap music videos has both positive and negative consequences for Dutch Black and White women's body image. This study highlights the need for culturally relevant intervention programs to accurately tackle body image concerns in the context of global music consumption among diverse groups of (young) women.

2025, Journal of African American Studies

Filling a gap in knowledge in gender theory, genocidal, and Holocaust studies, this paper operationalizes the concept of phallicism as an analytic explanation of the simultaneous killing and sexual victimization of racialized men in western, capitalist, patriarchal societies. The theory of phallicism posits that racialization lays the basis for a sexualization process wherein racialized males are caricaturized as both salacious savages (who can be raped by the men or women of the dominant racial group) and bestial/wanton creatures deserving of immediate death for the sake of liberal civility. Breaking with the dominant interpretive lenses in scholarly discourses around race and gender that understand racialized femininity as the basis of dehumanization, this paper will operationalize the notion of phallicism through historical and comparative analysis of the writings of political prisoner George Jackson and Primo Levi, a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust. With the theory of phallicismthe guiding theoretic of the paradigm of Black Male Studies-we can sharpen our conceptual acumen to account for the function of misandric patterns of intergroup violence and its role as the organizing principle of the negrophobia characteristic of Western, patriarchal, capitalist regimes.

2025, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Across W. E. B. Du Bois’s long life, as in our current moment, conversations about race were contested in the general public as well as on university campuses. We are living in yet another “revolutionary situation,” to echo James Baldwin, who, in speaking to a group of educators in 1963 just weeks after Du Bois’s death, insisted that we be prepared to “go for broke.” In this essay, we offer a model for how sociology instructors can go for broke collectively. We take advantage of the fortuitous situation where we independently and concurrently have called attention to Du Bois as “the teacher denied” and “the educator derived,” and offer here an instructional compass that draws on, extends, and unites the various strengths of our published work. We want to use this new collaboration to challenge ourselves, and to build on recent calls by writers and organizers for an abolitionist imaginary that guides relations within a teaching community and informs pedagogical tactics both inside and beyond the university classroom. The instructional compass we offer is guided by the need for deeper theorizing of the historical present and past; reconfigures traditional horizontal relationships with an eye toward community building; considers the stratified nature of higher education and the need for new ways to support and invest in the work of historically Black institutions and non-elite institutions; and embraces an artistic and humanist ethic as a necessary counterweight to the typical (scientific) standardized curriculum.

2025, Revista Círculo de Giz

Permuta recíproca, do fogo por todas as coisas e destas pelo fogo. Heráclito. O dito oracular do filósofo ganhou, em nosso tempo, o caráter de uma perversa profecia. O Λόγος, fogo sempre vivo, consumiu-se a si mesmo, realizando sua obra. O carvão, o petróleo, as florestas, as geleiras, o ar, o corpo humano. Imortal somente pode ser a própria morte. O sobrevivente -escritor sem leitor ou poeta sem povo, como disse Agamben -não pode gozar nem do cinismo nem do desespero. Se não desespera, igualmente sabe que o momento de "despertar a existência histórica" está perdido. Encarna a brutalidade e a crueza da vida em sua nudez, em seu sonambulismo ardente. Mas ao sobrevivente é dada a oportunidade de se apossar do que resta. Apossar-se do resto é apossar-se da própria oportunidade, do seu momento, inapropriável e incomunicável. Tomar lugar no que não há de lhe ser próprio nem comunicável é sua tarefa, e ela prefigura a sorte de todos os falantes sobre um planeta que queima. Por isso ele sobre-vive. Fala sobre a língua numa língua na qual já não há habitantes. Será essa a tarefa de uma re-vista. Re-vistar, olhar novamente, com os olhos logrados pelas chamas, o mundo em sua própria condição de resto, condição que agora lhe é própria. Re-ver o deserto cinza, desde o lugar da sobrevivência, não para dizer o que na língua existe, mas para inventar um olhar para o qual (ainda ou já) não há língua.

2025, SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH

This study aims to highlight how Octavia Butler's life influenced her writing "Parable of the Sower." Characterization, storyline, and other aspects of the novel are all very intimately tied to Butler's life. Butler and Lauren were both raised in traditional Baptist homes, and they have both always been captivated by the psychological effects of religion. Butler had the opportunity to explore cultural and racial variety while growing up in the ethnically mixed Pasadena neighbourhood. Butler drew on her historical reading and background to create the fictitious worlds. What Butler predicted for the future is more important than ever today. She saw a world that was poised to come to an end. She encountered a Black woman prophet who understood that absolutely nothing is predetermined and that we have the power to shape events and change their trajectory. It encourages us to let go of the conventions that can push us towards a disastrous future and to embrace our greatest strength—the capacity for change. She offers a vision of a humanist future where metaphysical spirituality is possible without the need for a conventional, all-powerful Supreme deity. She created imaginary worlds like the one we live in, but she also gave each of us the inspiration to follow our own goals and face our apprehension about the unknown while being brave and creative. The Earth seed aphorism serves as a constant reminder that "Everything you touch, You Change..."

2025, Studies in Literature and Language

Racial segregation and identity crisis play an essential role in Black American literature as well as in American society. The objective of the study is to analyze the significant themes of identity crisis and racial segregation in Richard Wright's novel Black Boy. The study focuses on the concepts of racial segregation and identity crisis because these issues were and are still controversial and argumentative in Afro-American Literature. There is also an analysis of the features of post-colonialism. Postcolonialism is a major writing style used in this novel. It claims that Black American literature was written to fight against racial segregation, oppression, aggression in order to obtain self-pride and identity. It also concentrates on the theme of the problems of Blacks' identity and racial discrimination in American society to prove that racism and oppression are indeed prominent themes in Wight's novel because the book was written during the Jim Crow era at a point where racism was very important in American society.

2025, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

2025

Mental health disparities disproportionately affect underrepresented groups, especially African American adults. Mental health disparities stem from historical racism, oppression, and stigma [1]. The purpose of the capstone is to examine the different areas of social problems and examine solutions. African American adults aged 18-25 were chosen because their mental illness is often overlooked and inadequately addressed, and cultural difference is not considered. Mental illness not being addressed among this group can lead to prolonged, chronic, and severe daily depression, disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, incarceration, and poor quality of life [2]. Solutions to this problem include implementing culturally sensitive interventions by practitioners utilizing these interventions for this population. The implication is that African Americans would be inclined to seek help and provide clinicians with a way to incorporate their cultural competence.

2025, Future Visions Journal

Critical Disability Theory (CDT) is an emerging interdisciplinary framework that studies disability issues through literary, cultural, historical, social, and political lenses. Situated within Critical Disability Studies (CDS), it unites Critical Theory with Disability Theory, drawing on the critical tradition of the Frankfurt School to challenge mainstream perceptions and advocate for societal change. Unlike traditional approaches, which uphold objectivity, CDT acknowledges and seeks to dismantle societal oppressions, particularly those that impede the full realization of individuals with disabilities. As there has been limited opportunity for disabled individuals to express perspectives that challenge mainstream understandings of disability and societal expectations for those with disabilities, CDT changes this dynamic by giving precedence to the voices of disabled individuals. By drawing on the lived experiences of disabled individuals, Critical Disability Theory confronts and seeks to dismantle the pervasive negative stereotypes about disability, which are often propagated by non-disabled individuals and reinforced through diverse media and literature channels.

2025, New York Folklife: Diverse Voices

This is a reprint (with some modifications) of an article that appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Voices: New York Folklore in fall of 2004. Some members of black Greek letter organizations voluntarily scar them-selves by branding. Understanding this ritual requires going beyond the brand's physical form and examining the personal and organizational nar-rative histories that often accompany it. As participants in an ongoing dia-logue about what branding means today, fraternity members informally negotiate with brothers who do not support branding, family members who struggle with what it means to their own group identity, and, most importantly, popular culture, which holds negative associations. The men who undergo branding, however, invert the narratives that explain brand-ing as a mark of ownership and slavery and insist on defining its meaning for themselves.

2024, Wide Angle

The "Untitled" of this essay signifies not only on the title of D'Angelo's popular song, but also on the un-titling of masculinity that D'Angelo signifies through his discursive play with masculinity and blackness and through the visualization of the black male body. As such, this essay is approaching three things: one is a look at the text and the black male body and another is a look at the spectatorial practices that this text engenders. Finally, in consideration of the text and spectatorial practices, I approach the question of gender ethics or ethical gender constructs as they are provoked by the visual medium of music video. For the first part, I examine the African-American male body, its pop cultural contingencies and visualization, in one recent visual text, D'Angelo's video for "Untitled (How does it feel?)." 1 This text is noted not only for the nudity but also for the visualization of the black male body as an erotic object. For the second part, spectatorship provides an opportunity to foreground the relationship between the reader/viewer and the text and the

2024, Livro Letramento Racial no CAp-UERJ. Vol. 3.

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2024, Revista Inter-Ação

Este artigo tem como objetivo problematizar as reflexões suscitadas no
evento de extensão 9º Ciclo de cinema e diversidade sobre o tema masculinidades e sua relação com aspectos interseccionais, que ocorreu a partir da exibição do documentário “Bicha Preta”. Dialogando a partir de um referencial amplo de inclusão, discute masculinidades e problematiza suas intersecções. Com uma abordagem qualitativa, discorreremos a análise a partir das reflexões e discussões potentes desencadeadas pelos debatedores e participantes, a partir do documentário em tela, utilizando a análise textual discursiva. Percebemos uma participação majoritária e proativa de homens no evento e no debate, discutindo sobre a experiência do homem preto homossexual em um contexto social permeado pelo racismo e pela homofobia. Houve ainda uma invasão à transmissão
com intuito de interrompê-la, o que demonstra evidente preconceito,
conservadorismo e urgência de visibilidade dessas discussões.

2024

This reflective essay explores the interwoven nature of personal identity, lived experiences, and the pursuit of social justice within higher education. The author, a Black cisgender male, recounts his experiences with systemic racism and microaggressions, highlighting the subtle yet pervasive ways whiteness operates as a dominant norm. These experiences, combined with a commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), have shaped his core values of fairness, equality, respect, and accountability. The essay argues that true DEI transcends superficial representation, demanding fundamental restructuring of higher education systems – from curriculum design to hiring practices and student support. It emphasizes the importance of a critical examination of power dynamics and the interconnectedness of various marginalized identities. The author’s professional aspirations center on creating transformative learning environments that actively challenge oppressive systems and empower marginalized communities, advocating for anti-racist pedagogical approaches and collaborative projects bridging academia and community activism. Ultimately, the essay underscores the urgent need for systemic change to achieve a truly just and inclusive higher education system.

2024, Stories of Sport: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination

Black athletes have had a history of expressing athletic activism to expose social justice issues. However, Black athletes who engage in athletic activism also have had a history of being reprimanded and blackballed from engaging in sport due to using their voice. Publicized and well-known examples include Muhammad Ali, who refused to fight in the Vietnam War and was subsequently exiled from boxing (Brown, 2018), as well as U.S. Olympians, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who protested poverty and lynchings by removing their shoes, bowing their heads, and lifting one raised fist during the 1968 medal ceremony in Mexico City (Brown, 2017). Iconic media images have been etched in the American collective conscious as examples of how to use an athletic platform to raise awareness of injustice. Though the results of basketball players Craig Hodges and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's activism were similar to Ali, Smith, and Carlos, in the 1990s, their stories were marginalized in the media. Hodges, who had a history of activism prior to becoming a professional athlete, saw his acquired NBA status as a platform for amplifying the voices of oppressed people. According to Hodges, he was blackballed after attempting to highlight the lack of Black NBA ownership and for providing President Bush with an eight-page letter outlining the conditions of youth in impoverished areas (Squadron, 2019). Conversely, Abdul-Rauf, former Denver Nuggets point guard, converted to Islam mid-season and began protesting the national anthem because he "viewed the American flag as a symbol of oppression and racism" and noted that "standing for the anthem would conflict with his Muslim faith"

2024, Saarc journal of social sciences

This work offers a hermeneutical analysis and framework for understanding the emerging acceptance of homosexuality among a few Black American Protestant church leaders and congregants in the age of neoliberal globalization under American hegemony. I argue that the White Christian Western world ended Black history as a distinct form of system and social integration unfolding onto the world by integrating them into the dialectic of their (neo) liberal (Protestant) capitalist means and modes of production. This process, contemporarily, in postindustrial America, has led to the queerification and feminization of the so-called Black American (fictitious) community. As such, the emerging phenomenon of embracing homosexuality as church doctrine is related to black relations to the means and modes of production, which embraces and reinforces the identity politics and diversified consumerism by which the superstructure of the postindustrial economic base of the American service economy is constituted.

2024, Psyche

O presente artigo constrói uma reflexão acerca do lugar da imagem na clínica psicanalítica. Apresenta-se brevemente a questão do olhar e da imagem na teoria psicanalítica por meio de dois conceitos primordiais: o de fantasia e o de fetiche. Ambos são construções imagéticas que carregam em sua estrutura as marcas das tensões intrapsíquicas que os moldam e caracterizam a dimensão da imagem na análise. Propõe-se uma concepção do tratamento psicanalítico como incidindo no espaço entre imagem e palavra, e aproxima-se tal concepção do conceito de montagem cinematográfica. O tratamento analítico teria por visada, por meio do manejo da transferência, remontar a narrativa sintomática do sujeito em análise. Unitermos Psicanálise; imagem; transferência; cinema; montagem.

2024, Psyche

2024, Strategies for enhancing public awareness and engagement in climate action.

Enhancing public awareness and engagement in climate action is critical for addressing global environmental challenges. This article explores a multifaceted approach to fostering climate consciousness and active participation across diverse audiences. Key strategies include education initiatives, such as integrating climate science into school curricula and hosting community workshops; leveraging digital platforms and social media for impactful campaigns; and organizing citizen science projects to promote local involvement. Tailored messaging, positive framing, and incentives are highlighted as effective tools for overcoming barriers to engagement and inspiring action. Additionally, partnerships with media, businesses, and policymakers are emphasized for amplifying outreach and aligning climate action with societal goals. The importance of addressing equity and inclusivity in climate solutions is also underscored, ensuring broad accessibility and shared benefits. By combining these approaches, this framework aims to mobilize communities, build resilience, and accelerate the transition to a sustainable future.

2024, Journal of Public Management

This paper revisits the encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin from two perspectives: the co-production of public safety and public order and black crimmythology. Co-production is associated with the expanding and often unpredictable role that community residents, formal and informal communal organizations and nongovernmental institutions play in assisting public agencies in developing and implementing public services (Whitaker 1980; Parks et al. 1981). Black crimmythology is a term used to describe the historical and contemporary conflation of blackness, maleness, and criminality in the mind of the American public (Close 1997). The objectives of this analysis goes beyond ascertaining the guilt, innocence, or proper role of Mr. Zimmerman, but seek to illumine the various historical and contemporary challenges that impact the co-production of police services which this encounter has dramatically underscored and highlight the managerial implications that have emerged. Woodrow Wilson (1887), in his seminal article, The Study of Administration noted, "It is the objective of administrative study to discover, first, what government can properly and successfully do, and secondly, how it can do these proper things with the utmost possible efficiency and at the least possible cost either of money or energy." The answers to these two questions are relative to the evolving ebb and flow of American society-yet they continue to guide the theoretical development and reinforce the practical application of American public administration. Co-production is associated with the expanding role that community residents play in assisting public agencies and their agents in developing and implementing public services (Whitaker 1980; Parks et al. 1981). As the collective action between governmental entities, residents of a given community, formal and/or informal communal groups, and nongovernmental organizations, co-production is dependent upon the willingness and ability of

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Upper level course syllabus in Black Male Studies/Subordinate Male class taught at the University of Edinburgh.

2024, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy 1 (59)

This article offers an in-depth examination of Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits, contextualizing its narrative within the frameworks of Queer theory and African American cultural studies. Set against the backdrop of a rural North Carolina community, the novel focuses on the experiences of Horace Cross, a young African American grappling with his homosexuality amidst the constraints of a Christian Fundamentalist society. The analysis explores how the novel navigates themes of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly through Horace’s quest for self-transformation. This study underscores the novel’s intricate exploration of these themes, positing queer transformation as a pivotal element that provides insight into the complexities of identity and community within the African American context. Additionally, the article examines the novel’s integration of popular culture references, revealing their role in bridging the discussions of racial and sexual identity. The aim is to shed light on Kenan’s narrative as a significant contribution to the discourse on intersectionality in literature, highlighting its impact in the broader fields of Black and queer studies.

2024, Gender, Work & Organization

With the rapid influx of labor migration and accelerating rates of
globalization, studies of hegemonic masculinity have become
increasingly divided in representing the amount of agency marginalized
men have access to in constructing alternative, more hybrid masculine
ideals as they travel overseas. This paper offers a new methodological
approach for studying hegemonic masculinity. Specifically, we analyze
how multiple forces at the st ruct ural , i nt er personal , and i nd i vi d ual
levels work together as a system of oppression. As our case study, we
focus on African bachelors who have migrated to South Korea to fill the
demand for 3‐d (dirty, difficult, and dangerous) labor. By analyzing 30
interviews and two years of ethnographic observation of African
migrants in Korea, our study demonstrates how migrant men become
trapped by their desires to perform their masculine worth as reliable
wage laborers, even at the cost of their physical and emotional well‐
being. While past studies on undocumented migrant workers in Korea
have highlighted their heightened exposure to institutional violence,
we shed light on how structural forces also bleed into the private
spaces of everyday life, shaping the intimate relationships and
personal desires of marginalized men themselves.

2024, La Palabra

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la manifestación del miedo en la narrativa fantástica, tanto en la literatura como en el cine. Los temas sobrenaturales son una constante en la prosa de ficción, proporcionando un aumento en los estudios sobre la relación entre el miedo y las narrativas fantásticas. Así, este estudio se basa en la erudición literaria de Yi-Fu Tuan (2005), Stephen King (2013), David Roas (2014), Marcel Martin (2003) y Jacques Aumont (2013). En cuanto a la metodología, se adopta un modelo de análisis de contenido con enfoque bibliográfico, exploratorio y cualitativo. La novela, como narrativa fantástica, desestabiliza nuestras fuentes de seguridad al cuestionar la validez de los sistemas y creencias creados e impuestos a la humanidad. Los resultados ilustran cómo el género fantástico se ha caracterizado por presentarnos fenómenos y situaciones que señalan una transgresión de nuestra realidad. Esta ruptura con lo real es, por tanto, un efecto fundamental de las narrativas fantásticas que también se han explorado en las narrativas cinematográficas.

2024, Peabody Journal of Education

This paper explores the outlooks of black parents raising sons in a suburban school setting in a town that I call Rolling Acres. Dominant narratives about black males center on urban environments where hazards of violence, failing schools, and socially disorganized neighborhoods are prevalent. However, black parents in suburban settings are not immune to racial hazards when raising black boys. This article engages two domains of distinct concern for the parents of black boys: academics and social life. Through a series of in-depth interviews and participant observations with 18 families in a suburban context, I argue parents of black boys, though sometimes divided along gender lines, were concerned with a host of race-related challenges such as social promotion, special education classification, dating preferences, the stereotyping of black boys, and the strain between being cool and academically successful. These concerns demonstrate the importance of understanding how black families, and boys in particular, wrestle with the racialized and gendered power structures even in well-resourced settings. This paper adds to the emerging body on suburbia by highlighting the continued significance of race and gender for black residential families sending their children to suburban schools. This article examines the outlooks of black parents raising sons in the suburbs and their educational experiences in local schools. Dominant narratives of parental negotiation center on urban environments where hazards of violence, failing schools, and socially disorganized neighborhoods are prevalent (Anderson, 1999; Noguera, 2003). Films such as Boyz N the Hood popularize the image of embattled black males struggling against poverty, violence, and urban decay. The film's patriarch Furious Styles works to shepherd his son and other males out of the 'hood, but many of the boys in the film remain trapped. Dominant images such as those circulated by Boyz N the Hood obscure the multidimensional nature of the black male experience in terms of class and educational opportunities. Addressing this void, this article traces the experiences of black parents in suburban settings who are raising black boys and their navigation of suburban educational institutions. Although not all suburbs may face the same challenging conditions depicted in Boyz N the Hood and other urban dramas, as this study shows, the reality of racism and its intersection with class and gender dynamics exist and contribute to disparate educational experiences and outcomes. This article engages two domains of concern for the parents of black boys: academics and social life. Drawing from a series of in-depth interviews and participant observation, I show how African-American parents-though divided along gender lines-routinely work to avoid racial Correspondence should be sent to R.

2024, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

This article brings a quare perspective to Moonlight's reception. We argue that many straight viewers identified the film's representational innovations but resisted its call to interrogate their preconceived notions about Black queerness. Instead, many audiences focused on others' interpretations of the film. They perceived Black viewers as homophobic, demonstrating third-person effect, and used that stance to demonstrate their own progressive politics. In addition to documenting Moonlight's reception, this study demonstrates how reading a text through the imagined reception of other viewers can shift focus from connecting with the material conditions of marginalization to proving one's own progressive bona fides.

2024, Critical Studies in Media Communication

This essay uses J. Cole's song "Wet Dreamz," the artist's boyhood tale about losing his virginity, as a case study examining how Black male hip-hop artists draw from ideas about the ordinary to position themselves vulnerably within the contours of the mainstream genre. I argue that Cole positions himself vulnerably by presenting himself as sexually insecure, making him susceptible to criticism around his masculinity and, by extension, mainstream marketability loss in a genre dominantly constructing Black men as sexually confident. Specifically, I explore how Cole discusses seemingly universal boyhood concerns about his penis size, "stroke," and wet dreams, accentuating a sense of connectedness to his male listeners. Second, I argue that Cole rearticulates his masculinity through his heterosexual desire, which could otherwise be jeopardized by the song's attentiveness to his sexual uncertainty. Through this case study, I demonstrate how Black male hip-hop artists can carve disruptive rhetorical space for expressing seemingly universal boyhood insecurities that commonly go unexpressed, depicting healthy sexual relationships, and representing Black boys as resilient and with sexual agency.

2024, Journal of Black Studies

This essay uses Tupac Shakur’s Me Against the World as a case study
examining how Black male artists use hip-hop music for articulating the
racialized vulnerability organizing their manhood. By thinking about how
Shakur understands his Black maleness through his social relationality to
the world around him, Shakur’s album creates resistive space for defining
Black maleness despite how Black masculinity is often defined and imposed
on Black men. Shakur’s album maps a relational network for understanding
a brand of Black manhood obscured by dominant discourses about Black
men and their masculinity. Specifically, Shakur’s album frames Black maleness
through poverty and how it orients Black men, his perpetual susceptibility to
harm and death, and suicide ideation as a response to his despair. Connecting
Black maleness and vulnerability, Shakur’s album offers insight about being
Black and male in a patriarchal White supremacist society.

2024

This dissertation explores how 12 diverse Black males who attend or graduated from the Pebbles School-an urban all-male public combined middle and high school-constructed, perceived, and negotiated their identities as males. Examining the relationship between masculinity and education, my study is situated at the intersection of education policy, gender and ethnic studies, and draws on work in Black Masculinity Studies for analyzing narratives and messages of participants. I found that these Black males faced enormous pressures to adopt hegemonic traits of masculinity, but also had to regularly define their own, complicated masculinities, which was relational to family, peers and teachers' expectations for their masculinity constructions. Additionally, this study uncovered that many of the stereotypes that routinely define Black males' perceived masculinities in coeducational schools didn't lessen because of their enrollment in an all-male, majority-Black male school. By focusing on the diverse experiences of young Black males in single-gender schools designed for their educational needs, I argued complex masculinities needs to be reflected in curricula, pedagogy, and policy. iii This dissertation is dedicated to my nephews and Black male mentees I also dedicate this work to my brother Juanzel LaNel Rennick and to my mentor/second mom Ruth Ann Stewart May you both rest in peace

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2024, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

2024, Philosophy international journal

This article, using Mocombeian phenomenological structural theory, phenomenological structuralism, highlights black American community transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to an intersectional one, which dominates the contemporary global order. The work posits that the constitution of black American communities and their identities have been the product of their relations to the means and mode of production within the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. As such, black Americans have never been agents in the constitution of their own identities. They have always been and remain (reactionary) pawns of capital seeking, dialectically or negative dialectically, to integrate the American social structure. Contemporarily, their integration in post-industrial America is marked by their transition from a pathological-pathogenic community to a neoliberal intersectional one dominated by their youth, women, and queers.