Considering Black male consciousness within the context of genre : a framework for engaging and analyzing bodies of literature that center Black male bodies and their racialized experiences
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- India R. S. Goodwin (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Glenn Hudak
Abstract: Considering Black Male Consciousness within the Context of Genre: A Framework for Engaging and Analyzing Bodies of Literature that Center Black Male Bodies and their Racialized Experiences represents primarily the union of genre studies and Tommy J. Curry’s (2017) Man-Not—a theory that accounts for the historical/societal gendering of Black males, a practice that does not account for the various masculinities, or genres represented by Black manhood. The coupling of these concepts ultimately leads to the culmination of Black Male Consciousness (BMC) as genre and a related set of signposts for analysis to be used in the secondary English classroom. The historical underpinnings of Curry’s (2017) work with genre in relation to Black men and boys along with the conceptual frameworks presented by genre systems are rarely, if ever, met with a level of pedagogical nuance necessary for disrupting deficit models of being that are continuously used to construct and perpetuate caricatures associated with Black male bodies in both literature and in life. As such, the Black Male Consciousness (BMC) as genre framework aims to help readers (both teachers and students) make meaning from Black males’ lived experiences—as presented by Black males—while creating a space in which readers are urged to interrogate social constructs and internalized beliefs around Black manhood.
Considering Black male consciousness within the context of genre : a framework for engaging and analyzing bodies of literature that center Black male bodies and their racialized experiences
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2023
- Keywords
- Black Masculinities, Literature
- Subjects
- Literature $x Study and teaching (Secondary)
- Black people in literature
- Masculinity in literature