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Author: Emmiyan Ferro Diaz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 71
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Men of color are usually stereotyped as inhabiting specific toxic, hypermasculine traits and other harmful characteristics. This is especially the case for Latino men, whose masculine stereotypes are dominated by the concept of Machismo. Despite such stereotypes, the topic of Latino masculinities has only started to receive considerable scholarly attention. Therefore this study seeks to understand how Latino men embody masculinities in specific social-cultural contexts such as a barbershop. In this study, I argue that Latino men recontextualize their masculinities, which assumes new shapes in the U.S., and I theorize as "adaptive masculinities." In order to study and analyze how gender is embodied by Latino men within unique social and cultural spaces, I employed ethnographic methods which include participant observation and in-depth interviews with six participants from Bacano Barbershop. This study concludes that masculinities are often adaptive and frequently employed strategically by immigrant Latino men in order to reap the benefits that are associated with maleness in a patriarchal socio-cultural system. The six Latino men in this study adapted their masculinities in ways that allow them to maintain some form of power, even in a context that devalues their privileged position.
Author: Emmiyan Ferro Diaz Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 71
Book Description
Men of color are usually stereotyped as inhabiting specific toxic, hypermasculine traits and other harmful characteristics. This is especially the case for Latino men, whose masculine stereotypes are dominated by the concept of Machismo. Despite such stereotypes, the topic of Latino masculinities has only started to receive considerable scholarly attention. Therefore this study seeks to understand how Latino men embody masculinities in specific social-cultural contexts such as a barbershop. In this study, I argue that Latino men recontextualize their masculinities, which assumes new shapes in the U.S., and I theorize as "adaptive masculinities." In order to study and analyze how gender is embodied by Latino men within unique social and cultural spaces, I employed ethnographic methods which include participant observation and in-depth interviews with six participants from Bacano Barbershop. This study concludes that masculinities are often adaptive and frequently employed strategically by immigrant Latino men in order to reap the benefits that are associated with maleness in a patriarchal socio-cultural system. The six Latino men in this study adapted their masculinities in ways that allow them to maintain some form of power, even in a context that devalues their privileged position.
Author: Kristen Barber Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813572657 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 149
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The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men’s beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men’s salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos. Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.
Author: Wayne Martino Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press ISBN: 1551304112 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 387
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Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a provocative new volume that examines men and masculinity across Canadian history and culture and sets it against the broader context of neoliberal globalization. This edited collection adopts a multi-perspective social inquiry and interdisciplinary approach and takes into careful consideration the intersections of the social and historical construction of gender with race, social class, sexuality, bodily abilities, and other social justice factors. The chief aim of this book is to examine, from historical and contemporary perspectives, the production and performance of men, boys, and embodied masculinity within the Canadian context. Within this framework, Canadian Men and Masculinities explores a range of issues including modern fatherhood, black male athleticism, indigenous masculinities, wrestling, and body building. This volume will be a valuable resource for general readers and professionals in sociology, history, education, and social and gender studies.
Author: Erika Suderburg Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816631599 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 392
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From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms. In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists view installation art as a diverse, multifaceted, and international art form that challenges institutional assumptions and narrow conceptual frameworks. The contributors discuss installation in relation to the genealogy of modern art, community and corporate space, multimedia cyberspace, public and private ritual, the gallery and the museum, public and private patronage, and political action. This ambitious volume focuses on issues of class, sexuality, cultural identity rase, and gender, and highlights a wide range of artists whose work is often marginalized by mainstream art history and criticism. Together, the essays in Space, Site, Intervention investigate how installation resonates within modern culture and society, as well as its ongoing influence on contemporary visual culture.
Author: Molly Wizenberg Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1683358929 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 285
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The New York Times–bestselling author’s thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships. At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she if something at her very core could change so radically? Wizenberg forges a new path: through separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The Fixed Stars is a “spirited, terrifyingly courageous” memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family (Booklist).
Author: Tarell Alvin McCraney Publisher: Theatre Communications Group ISBN: 1559367822 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 145
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"An exhilarating, multi-layered new play."—The Guardian "Stirring and stylishly told . . . McCraney's crispest and most confident work."—Daily News "Greatly affecting. . . . It takes a brave writer to set his language against the plaintive beauty of the hymns and spirituals . . . but McCraney's speech holds its own, locating poetry even in casual vernacular and again demonstrating his gift for simile and metaphor."—The Village Voice The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take his rightful place as leader of the school's legendary gospel choir, but can he find his way inside the hallowed halls of this institution if he sings in his own key? Known for his unique brand of urban lyricism, Tarrell Alvin McCraney follows up his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays with this affecting portrait of a gay youth trying to find the courage to let the truth about himself be known. Set against the sorrowful sounds of hymns and spirituals, Choir Boy premiered at the Royal Court in London before receiving its Off-Broadway premiere in summer 2013 to critical and popular acclaim. Tarell Alvin McCraney is author of The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet. Other works include Wig Out!, set in New York's drag clubs, and The Breach, which deals with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His awards include the 2009 Steinberg Playwrights Award and the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.
Author: Gabby Rivera Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593108183 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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A People magazine Best Book of Fall 2019 An Amazon Best Young Adult Book of 2019 "F***ing outstanding."--Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she's not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before flying to Portland, Oregon, to intern with her favorite feminist writer--what's sure to be a life-changing experience. And when Juliet's coming out crashes and burns, she's not sure her mom will ever speak to her again. But Juliet has a plan--sort of. Her internship with legendary author Harlowe Brisbane, the ultimate authority on feminism, women's bodies, and other gay-sounding stuff, is sure to help her figure out this whole "Puerto Rican lesbian" thing. Except Harlowe's white. And not from the Bronx. And she definitely doesn't have all the answers . . . In a summer bursting with queer brown dance parties, a sexy fling with a motorcycling librarian, and intense explorations of race and identity, Juliet learns what it means to come out--to the world, to her family, to herself.
Author: Annie Mendoza Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0429793669 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 185
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This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions. New consideration of the diversity of Afro-Latin American and Indigenous communities within the overarching categorization of "Colombianness" or Colombianidad have led to increased focus on the representation of Colombia and Colombian diasporic communities. By focusing on different cultural productions—novels, memoirs, films, plays and visual arts—this book analyzes the performance of Colombianidad by communities throughout the diaspora. Topics include Afro-Colombian, US Latinx, Caribbean and queer identity, marginalization of racialized bodies within Colombia and the Colombian diaspora, and the politics of identity representation. Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art examines how a consciously Colombian diasporic existence travels and is altered across geographic locales. Colombian Diasporic Identities will be key reading for scholars and students in US Latinx studies, and Latin American diasporic studies, together with ethnic studies, gender studies, queer studies and literature.
Author: Carlos Gabriel Kelly González Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816552304 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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Written for all gaming enthusiasts, this book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games, inviting Latinxs and others to insert their experiences into games made by an industry that fails to see them. The book employs an intersectional approach through performance theory, border studies, and lived experience to analyze the designed identity “Player Juan.” Player Juan manifests in video game representations through a discourse of criminality that sets expectations of who and what Latinxs can be and do. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept—digital mestizaje—that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing and that calls on researchers to consider a digital object’s constructive as well as destructive qualities.
Author: Emmiyan Ferro Diaz
Author: Emmiyan Ferro Diaz
Author: Kristen Barber
Author: Wayne Martino
Author: Fred M. Holycross
Author: Erika Suderburg
Author: Molly Wizenberg
Author: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Author: Gabby Rivera
Author: Annie Mendoza
Author: Carlos Gabriel Kelly González