Unbecoming men: Towards a discursive emancipation of black boys

Motimele, Moshibudi

doi:10.1080/10130950.2021.2046391

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“…In this vein, love enables us to apprehend the ambivalences of being young black men who live and love in the township: of being violent yet vulnerable, of being complicit yet oppressed, of being antisocial yet intimate and of being 'young men' -no longer boys, but not yet men. Furthermore, a focus on love avoids an overly deterministic reading of young black men as dangerous, without denying the violences that young black men do either experience or enact upon others (Motimele, 2021).…”

Section: Locating Love and Young Black Menmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Show Her My Feelings: Young Black Men and the Doing of Love in a South African Township

Dlamini

2023

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

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Love in the lives of young black men in South Africa has received particularly limited attention in literature. Although there has been a steady increase in love scholarship in Africa, these studies have mostly focused on the love experiences of young women. In that context, studies on love often focus on the disproportionate vulnerabilities experienced by young women, such as intimate partner violence. However, this characterisation of love in South African literature has, perhaps inadvertently, promoted a narrow understanding of young black men as being violent and emotionally inept. The article moves beyond these limited conceptualisations of young black men and explores love as a productive force in their lives. Drawing on empirical findings generated from interviews with 34 young men between the ages of 16 and 21, the article shows how love and the young men’s emerging masculinities were experienced as mutually constitutive. Their negotiations of love were experienced as opportunities to resist normative masculinities, demonstrated through ukushela and emotional reflexivity. These young black men’s investment in their relationships suggests the progressive possibilities of love in their lives.

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Section: Locating Love and Young Black Menmentioning

confidence: 99%