“Not Out to Start a Revolution”

Abstract

In this article, I use in-depth interviews with black university men to investigate race, gender, and emotions. Participation in dominant institutions requires African American men to exhibit extraordinary emotional restraint. Because anger is culturally associated with men, however, black men's suppression of anger violates masculine expectations. Thus, racial subordination not only creates difficult emotional expectations but may also create emotional dilemmas in which expected emotional displays undermine other identity expectations. In this article, I examine both how a group of black university men achieve emotional restraint and how they use their emotions to craft and manage their identities as black middle-class men. I argue that black men distance themselves from the controlling image of the angry black man by developing a shared identity I call moderate blackness. Moderate blackness entails emotional restraint, a moderate approach to campus racial politics, and the ability to get along with white people. These strategies work together to produce positive, restrained emotions and to manage anger and agitation, but they require black university men to "not see" racism. Black men use defensive othering to push the stereotype of the angry black onto black women. In doing so, they shore up their masculinity but leave women responsible for combating racial inequality.

What Constitutes ‘Discrimination’ in Everyday Talk? Argumentative Lines and the Social Representations of Discrimination

“…These are that discrimination is (1) morally wrong and irrational; (2) performed by a particular kind of problematic identity (uneducated, isolated, and pathological); (3) deliberate and intended by the actor. Consequently, an act is not discrimination when it is (4) based on rational and objective realities; and (5) not intended to cause harm (Andreouli, Greenland, & Howarth, 2016; Augoustinos & Every 2007; Burford-Rice & Augoustinos, 2017; Capdevila & Callaghan, 2007; Every & Augoustinos, 2007; Figgou & Condor, 2006; Goodman & Rowe, 2014; Greenland & Taulke-Johnson, 2017; Howarth, 2009; Kadianaki, 2014; Kirkwood, McKinlay & McVittie, 2013; Moore & Greenland, 2018; Sommers & Norton, 2006; Swim, Scott, Sechrist, Campbell, & Stangor, 2003; Wilkins, 2012).…”

Estrategias Metodológicas e Instrumentos de Abordaje sobre Estudios de Emociones en Hombres: Revisión Narrativa

“…Por otra parte, se encontraron estudios sobre las emociones como construcción social (Walton, Coyle, & Lyons, 2004;Brenton & Elliott, 2017), en relación con la construcción de la masculinidad (Buzzanell & Turner, 2003;Emslie, et al, 2006;Evers, 2009;Canham, 2009;Montes, 2013;White, 2014;Mann, Tarrant, & Lesson, 2016), relaciones de poder (Meth, 2009), conocimientos, significados emocionales y subjetividades relacionados con el género (Cruz, 2011;Lively, 2008;Wilkins, 2012;Waitt & Stanes, 2015), como la paternidad (Evans, 2012), el sexo opuesto (Duncombe & Marsden, 1993;Wyatt & Ehrhardt, 2003;Morales de Castro, 2010), vínculos afectivos (Jackson, 2012), expresión, experiencias y regulación emocional en diferentes contextos (Barrientos Delgado., et al, 2011;Zackariasson, 2009;Vaccaro, Schrock, & McCabe, 2011;Bennett & Gough, 2013;Randell, et al, 2015;Apesoa-Varano, Barker, & Hinton, 2015;Nash, 2012), en relación con la salud, cuidado y autocuidado (Lomas, Cartwright Edginton, & Ridge, 2012;Wentzell, 2014;Wu, Oliffe, Bungay, & Johnson, 2015;Thomeer, Reczek, & Umberson, 2015), el cuerpo (Villa, 2015;Waitt & Stanes, 2015) y la violencia, perdón, paz y reconciliación (Conejero, Etxebarria, & Montero, 2014).…”

“…Este estudio logró evidenciar que la calidad de la investigación cualitativa de los estudios de emociones en los hombres se ve afectada, en tanto que no siempre se presenta la articulación coherente entre: epistemología, metodología y método (Carter & Little, 2007). Además, se identificó la etnografía como el diseño más utilizado (Barrientos Delgado, et al, 2011;Vaccaro, et al, 2011;Jackson, 2012;Montes, 2013;Villa, 2015;Wilkins, 2012;Wentzell, 2014). Se encontraron estudios realizados con base en la etnografía y geografía emocional (Meth, 2009), así como otros que vinculan la etnografía y autoetnografía (Nash, 2012).…”

“Not Your Average Nerd”: Masculinities, Privilege, and Academic Effort at an Elite University

“…This afforded some masculine status for those who were athletes (see also Holland 2012) but also rendered nonathlete Black men socially invisible. Being forced to either embody racialized stereotypes or experience social dislocation increases the "emotional costs" of college for Black men (see also Wilkins 2012).…”