SOSC 1920 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hypermasculinity, Exaggeration, Femininity
3 Apr 2016
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Soci 1920 male and female relationships final exam review: cool pose. Richard majors, cool pose: black masculinity and sports . The way black men seek to reassert a sense of their masculinity and power as body seen as tool. A set of expressive lifestyle behaviors developed and used by black men as a response to the limits that institutionalized racism place on black athletes and counter social oppression. Black men were decline to hegemonic masculinity. These limits carve out alternative paths to achieving goal within dominate hegemonic masculinity. Survival strategy for black athletes as a cultural resistance to racism. Sports is a means of masculine self expression that is limited for black men: white guy: we allow black guy to succeed , education is not black focus, older slavery life reproduce race equality. Cool pose represents human agency within structural constraints.
