CRM 3318 Lecture 8: The Racialization of Masculinities

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3318
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

The racialization of masculinities: how are black masculinities racialized, how is hegemonic masculinity defined through the marginalization of racialized men, consequences for black men. It can affect everyday life: how you can be treated by the police. Racialization of black masculinity: what stereotypes exist in society about black men, they"re scary, violent, criminogenic prone, affiliated with gangs, exotic, resistance of black masculinity and how it"s trying to change. Eric garner: choked to death for illegally selling cigarettes. It"s a pattern: not rare, normally it"s extreme violence; It takes an intersectional approach - a black male and how it"s being racialized: gender is constructed through race, and race is constructed through gender; they"re intersectional and mutually constitutive. It implies inferiority: the masculinity of black men is seen as a "threat" to the dominant group, this inferiority is considered inherent; It"s tied to slavery: originally it was used as a justification for slavery;