“Cookie” and “Jungle Boy”: A Historical Sketch of the Different Cooks for Different Folks in British Colonial Southeast Asia, ca. 1850–1960

Leong-Salobir, Cecilia

doi:10.1080/20549547.2015.11435412

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“…This noun can be understood within the context of slavery and colonialism in which many African American men, and other colonised men throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, were reduced or denied masculinity through the diminutive (e.g., 'boy', 'field boy', and 'houseboy') (Leong-Salobir 2015). Even if Rodger was not conscious of implications of his word choice, three sentences later he evokes slavery outright, '[h]e is descended from slaves'.…”

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Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto

Myketiak

2016

Contemporary Social Science

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Mass shootings, where four or more people are injured or killed, are widely constructed as a contemporary American social problem. This article uses critical discourse analysis guided by thematic analysis to examine the text written and distributed by a mass shooter in California in 2014. Analysis of the narrative frame and discursive construction shows that the author is motivated by a precarious or 'fragile' relationship to masculinity that involves positioning himself against both women and other minority ethnic men in a way that underscores multiple social inequalities. This work contributes to the social science of narrative by building on the connections between positioning theory and framing, which are applied to a text that contributes to debates in feminist linguistics and broader discussions of mass shootings. The findings contribute to feminist linguistics by demonstrating how a mass shooter uses language to rationalise his actions through a frame of hegemonic masculinity based on social inequalities, namely gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and social class. Finally, this work contributes to broader discussions of mass shooters by demonstrating how this mass shooter does not construct or position himself in a way that is exceptional or extraordinary but rather hinges on a fragile form of contemporary masculinity that uses violence as a way to prove self-worth, dominance, and superiority.

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Section: Heterosexual Success and A Racial Hierarchy: Analysismentioning

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Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto

Myketiak

2016

Contemporary Social Science

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“Food Comes First”: The Development of Colonial Nutritional Policy in Ghana, 1900–1950

Robins

2018

Global Food History

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“Cookie” and “Jungle Boy”: A Historical Sketch of the Different Cooks for Different Folks in British Colonial Southeast Asia, ca. 1850–1960

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto

Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto

“Food Comes First”: The Development of Colonial Nutritional Policy in Ghana, 1900–1950

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