Beschreibung:
Alexander's linked essays on the African American male experience.
This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, sexuality, and identity_the student-teacher interaction, the black barbershop, drag queen performances, the funeral eulogy. From these he builds a theory of Black masculine identity using auto-ethnography and ideas of performance as his base.
1 Introduction: Exploring Modalities and Subjectiveness that Shape Social Relations 2 Crossing Borders and Changing Customs: Moments When the Spectator Becomes the Spectacle 3 Placement and Displacement of Black Identity: The Case of Migration across Borders from Campus to Community 4 Passing, Cultural Performance and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity 5 (Re) Visioning the Ethnographic Site: Interpretive Ethnography, Performing Drag, and Feminist Pedagogy 6 Fading, Twisting, and Weaving: An Interpretive Ethnography of the Black Barbershop/Salon as Cultural Space 7 Were/Are, Fort/Da: The Eulogy as Constitutive (Auto)biography (or, Traveling to Coalesce a Public Memory)