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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Ann Tlusty – “‘Are you Jews, or Soldiers?’ Masculine Identity, Social Exclusion, & the Right to Bear Arms in Early Modern Germany” – April 14, 2011

This lecture draws on two recent moments in the “War on Terror” — the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and a US Military study of “pedophilia” in Afghanistan — to analyze the inextricability of masculinity and militarism and the centrality of race and sexuality in nationalist projects of war and violence. The lecture suggests, in particular, that anxieties about the stability of hegemonic forms of white, “patriotic” American masculinity are increasingly assuaged through the identification — and dehumanization — of improperly sexed/gendered Muslim men.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Bill Flack – “College Men and Responsibility for Sexual Assault” – March 31, 2011

Data collected at Bucknell demonstrate that approximately 10% of male students admit to perpetrating sexual assault at least once while on campus, whereas approximately 40% of female students report being assaulted here. These and related findings will be reviewed, and questions will be raised about men’s responsibility for sexual assault.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

James Peterson – “New Ethnicities/Masculinities in the Narratives of Hip Hop Culture” – March 31, 2011

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.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Collin McKinney – “Seeing Beyond the Black: Fashioning Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Spain” – February 24, 2011

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.

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Thursday, March 30th, 2017

Linden Lewis – “Fanon, De-alienation, and the African American Man” – March 24, 2011

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 […]

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