WGS365H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Masculinity, Homophobia, Racial Profiling
13 Feb 2015
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Wgs363: theories of masculinity january 19th 2015. Lecture 3 appropriating masculinity in the south asian diaspora. Being seen as a specific culture changes how you are treated: patrick johnson (appropriating blackness) Blackness does not belong to any one individual or group. Individuals or groups appropriate this complex and nuanced racial signifier. What are some consequences of embodying blackness in a racist society: context matters. These symbols that reflect culture are not naturalized in the body. Putting culture (symbols, practices, styles) on the body; culture may be associated with class, race, nationality, gender. Even men can appropriate masculinity: can be manipulated. Consequences of appropriation are different based on context * People displaced/dispersed from a common geographic site. Often still having emotional, nostalgic, economic, familial, material attachments to previous home. Oftne does not have access to normative notions of citizenship/inclusion in new location (due to: racism & xenophobia, attachments, material constraints, language barriers, different cultural tastes)
