Peterson’s paper critically engages the lyrics and poetics of an emerging sense of black masculinity within the artistry of black diasporic Hip Hop artisans who challenge traditional versions of black masculinity by embracing non-American cultural moorings within the black Diaspora.
Nothing reveals an individual’s gender quite like their wardrobe, and yet a first glance at the drab blackness of men’s fashion in the nineteenth century seems to say so little about anything at all. However, the apparent simplicity of the ubiquitous black suit belies the complexity and inherent contradictions between sartorial style and the performance of masculinity in the second half of the century. In this paper Professor Collin McKinney will address the old adage that “the clothes make the man” as he examines men’s fashion in late nineteenth-century Spain.
This paper seeks to bring together the theoretical and philosophical discourse of Frantz Fanon’s work on Black Skin/White Masks, with the actions of the affirmation of blackness in the Sanitation Workers’ Strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. The objective is to read the sanitation strike as being consistent with Fanon’s goal of serving to help the black man free himself of the arsenal of complexes that had developed in the context of the Jim Crow south. The paper is an attempt to view the sanitation strike in Fanonian terms of de-alienation of the black man. For Fanon, the issue of […]
While assertive displays of masculinity abound on movie screens and football fields, this presentation argues that masculinity is performed first and foremost at the dinner table. With forks and knives in hands, meat consumption has long been regarded as a powerful signifier for maleness. In this talk, Professor Philippe Dubois reevaluates a certain number of myths around the desire for animal flesh, and proposes a vision of masculinity for the 21st century at the intersection of food, sex, and gender politics.
Transnational Fiesta: Twenty Years Later explores cultural change and continuity in the indigenous Andean community, fiesta, and migrant colony first documented in the award-winning Transnational Fiesta: 1992. The film follows a migrant family as they travel to celebrate the patron saint fiesta they first sponsored two decades earlier in their hometown, Cabanaconde, Peru, and also participate in the diaspora fiesta in Maryland. The sequel shows the remarkable persistence of Andean culture over time and space as well as the ruptures imposed by global capitalism, generational differences, and other forces of change. For more information see: transnationalfiesta.com