Buller Men and Batty Bwoys

Crichlow, Wesley

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“…Understanding the developing person as a continual author who is working to narrate a connected life story is important to young adults who are working to create cohesive conceptualizations of self that rationalize particular identity formations (McAdams and Olson 2010). Sociological studies that have examined Black gay male identity have highlighted how race, sexuality, religion, and social spaces inform the proclaimed identities of Black gay men (Crichlow 2004;Hawkeswood 1996;Hunter 2010a;Icard 1986;Winder 2015). Both Hawkeswood and Hunter emphasize the ways that Black gay men understand their gay identities and that while many works consider that either race or sexuality must dominate as a primary identifier, many Black gay men find these aspects of self as inextricable.…”

Section: Intersectionality and Black Gay Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both Hawkeswood and Hunter emphasize the ways that Black gay men understand their gay identities and that while many works consider that either race or sexuality must dominate as a primary identifier, many Black gay men find these aspects of self as inextricable. Wesley Eddison Aylesworth Crichlow (2004) illustrates how Afro-Caribbean and African Canadian same-sex attracted men create lives of "safety and pleasure" (p. 4) while feeling tenuously positioned within Canadian Black communities. While these studies have articulated how Black gay men might identify, they do not tend to explicate the micro-interactional collective work that assists young Black gay men in the negotiation of their stigmatized identities.…”

Section: Intersectionality and Black Gay Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unspoiling Identity: An Intersectional Expansion of Stigma Response Strategies

Winder

2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Sociological research has documented the various strategies employed by members of stigmatized populations to mitigate the negative social effects of these identities in everyday life. Furthermore, social and political campaigns have called for efforts toward destigmatizing identities. However, we know much less about how these groups come to aim for destigmatization and how individuals navigate multiple stigmas simultaneously or intersectional stigmas. Drawing on four years of ethnographic data, I use the case of Black gay men to articulate a form of stigma response that prioritizes the “stigmatized” rather than attending to the smoothness of interactions with a potential stigmatizer. I illustrate how the confines of multiple forms of stigma can make existing stigma response techniques, like passing and covering, untenable. I offer the term, “unspoiling” to account for the ways that some members of stigmatized populations reject the Goffmanian notion that these identities would be perpetual marks of inferiority. In so doing, I articulate an intersectional understanding of (de)stigmatization processes by attending to groups that are overlooked in mainstream efforts to focus solely on either race or sexuality. These findings add to the growing literature of stigma management response techniques and challenge the conversation of larger group destigmatization processes. This work reveals the contested process of stigma negotiation as young Black gay men debate the appropriate strategies to combat stigma in their local communities. Ultimately, unspoiling is a strategy borne out of tense discussions about the (un)acceptability of passing or covering one’s sexual identity.

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Section: Intersectionality and Black Gay Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intersectionality and Black Gay Identity Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unspoiling Identity: An Intersectional Expansion of Stigma Response Strategies

Winder

2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Others leave town or even migrate to another country to breathe the comparative freedom of urban anonymity. For men of Latino, Asian, African, or Caribbean origins, a sense of dislocation may be exacerbated by participation in community networks that devalue gay relationships and by participation in gay scenes that devalue men of color (Bowleg, 2013;Crichlow, 2004;Decena, 2011;Poon, Ho, Wong, Wong, & Lee, 2005). It may be a transition toward finding a long-term partner or spouse, a network of friends, and a supportive social environment, but such things are often not easily or quickly acquired.…”

Section: Gay Masculinities and Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and HIV Risk

Adam

2016

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Health science research on HIV risk focuses strongly on psychological traits of individuals as determinants of health and vulnerability. This paper seeks to place these findings in a larger social context marked by neoliberalism to provide some insights into the arenas of vulnerability to risk. These arenas are shaped by shifts in the environing political economy which generate subjectivities concordant with the pressures of the neoliberal turn to increasing marketization, individualization, and responsibilization. These pressures create cultures of expectation that accentuate particular trends defining success, masculinity, and risk in contemporary societies. In other words, the 'risk factors,' identified in the now voluminous research literature on HIV, cumulate in particular social locations that, at least in part, articulate with masculine gender performance in marketplaces. These intersections affect the expression of sex between men and vulnerabilities to risk, providing an alternative understanding to the deficit models current in health science research.

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“…However, in addition to these overlapping social oppressions, gay men face overwhelming complexities to their lived experience. In Buller Men and Batty Boys, Wesley Crichlow (2004) acknowledges how the Black community, including Black academics, marginalize Black gay men in Toronto and Halifax. Crichlow (2004) explains that "for some, "gayness" is interpreted as a sign of European decadence or a weak masculinity.…”

Section: Considering Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Buller Men and Batty Boys, Wesley Crichlow (2004) acknowledges how the Black community, including Black academics, marginalize Black gay men in Toronto and Halifax. Crichlow (2004) explains that "for some, "gayness" is interpreted as a sign of European decadence or a weak masculinity. In this context, men who participate in sexual relationships with other men are often regarded as race traitors" (p. 15).…”

Section: Considering Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the Experiences and Struggles of Un(der)employed Afro-Caribbean “Black” (ACB) Young Men in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.

Clarke¹

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This dissertation investigates how first-and second-generation Afro-Caribbean Black (ACB) male youth utilize youth employment training programs (YETPs) in three Canadian cities. ACB male youth are often marginalized through their encounters with racial discrimination, their lack of social capital, and their lived experiences which are significantly different than those of white, middle class young men in mainstream Canada. My study found that these young people are consistently met with racism, sexism and classism from employers who partner with YETPs, who presume ACB male youth are 'not good for business.' The study also found that YETP counsellors unintentionally reinforce class, race, and gender-based exclusions for ACB young men, which lowers their likelihood of finding success in the job market. Young ACB men both recognize the social exclusions they experience in these settings, and also take responsibility, as neoliberal subjects, for their own so-called 'failures' to find meaningful paid employment. I suggest that this reinforcing constellation of experiences leaves young ACB men in marginalized positions that are strikingly similar to those that ACB men have been forced to inhabit historically in Canada -that is, low-paying and menial labour that ultimately degrades their humanity and sense of self. Theoretically, I utilize the work of Franz Fanon as a way to encapsulate how Canadian social norms -emerging from Canada's existence as a settler-colonial nation-state and its long history of racial discrimination -continue to affect the social development of young ACB men. I draw on phenomenology to understand the social experiences of ACB male youth and their use of employment training programs while considering the intersubjective ideologies from other people who work with these youth in YETPs. The study also uses an intersectional approach to appreciate the heterogeneity of Black male youth, which is particularly important when studying racialized groups who are often treated as homogeneous. This study considers the lived experiences of marginalized ACB young men and the perspectives of YETP counsellors, employers, and funders of YETPs. The research approach allows me to understand how better to support young ACB men and their socioeconomic development while challenging misconceptions about Black masculinity in Canada.MAPPING THE EXPERIENCES AND STRUGGLES OF UN(DER)EMPLOYED AFRO-CARIBBEAN BLACK (ACB) YOUNG MEN I am humbled and grateful for the opportunity to have been able to interview all the participants for this doctoral study, especially the youth. To the young Black men who took part, I am humbled to have learned from you and I appreciate the opportunity to be able to use your insights to inform this study. Thank you for trusting me with your lived experiences.To Sylvain Dion and the Danielle Dion Bursary committee -Thank you for all the support and for encouraging me to strive for my academic goals. Sylvain, thank you for your encouragement to complete my doctorate.To my family -Aunt Marcia, thank y...

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Buller Men and Batty Bwoys

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Unspoiling Identity: An Intersectional Expansion of Stigma Response Strategies

Unspoiling Identity: An Intersectional Expansion of Stigma Response Strategies

Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and HIV Risk

Mapping the Experiences and Struggles of Un(der)employed Afro-Caribbean “Black” (ACB) Young Men in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.

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