2011-12 « Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Jason Ritchie – “Patriots & Pedophiles in the ‘War on Terror’: How Men are Made (and Unmade) in the Service of the Nation” – 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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Archive for the 2011-12 Category

Jason Ritchie – “Patriots & Pedophiles in the ‘War on Terror’: How Men are Made (and Unmade) in the Service of the Nation” – April 14, 2011

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

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

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

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

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