Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project

Froyum, Carissa M.

doi:10.1080/09589236.2012.681188

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“…We argue that the kiss means something different within hip-hop culture than it would among white middle-class straight men. Thug masculinity, which includes physical toughness, sexual promiscuity and prowess, and comfort with violence, is the idealized form of masculinity in hip-hop (Ford 2011; Froyum 2013). Yet, thug masculinity also involves an open expression of tenderness between men that the literature treats as antithetical to male bonding within hegemonic masculinity (Oware 2011; Bird 1996).…”

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“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

Randolph

Swan

Rowe

2017

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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This paper examines how commenters (N= 290 posts) to an urban gossip blog interpret the meaning of ambiguously sexual behavior: a kiss shared by two male gangsta rappers. It shows that fans use the same interpretive repertoire to come to very different conclusions about the meaning of the rappers’ sexual orientation in the wake of the kiss. Other research finds that hegemonic masculinity has expanded to include touch between men as a legitimate expression of heterosexual intimacy, yet that literature ignores or pathologizes marginalized men (Bridges and Pascoe 2014; McCormack and Anderson 2014). Our study makes up for this gap by exploring the frames and concerns native to hip-hop culture that explain how fans label the rappers’ sexuality as a result of the kiss. We find that fans are particularly concerned with policing the boundary around thug masculinity, the most valorized form of masculinity within hip-hop culture.

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“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

Randolph

Swan

Rowe

2017

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Gender and Emotion Management

Froyum

2018

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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There Is No Strength in Emotions

Huey

2015

J Interpers Violence

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This article is based on analysis of 76 in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with homeless women in Los Angeles. What is revealed are three patterns of street enculturation-"low-," "medium-," and "high street"- which are linked to attitudes women professed to hold about violence. In essence, the degree to which a woman had adopted a "street orientation" is seen to influence how she spoke of violence during earlier portions of the interview. However, several "medium-street" and "high-street" women subsequently acknowledged (directly or indirectly) that they were "fronting" for the interviewer to preserve a tough façade. When they opened up about their real feelings, the extent to which they had internalized the trauma of violence was revealed. Implications of these findings are explored.

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Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

Gender and Emotion Management

There Is No Strength in Emotions

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