25.021 - Adolescent Male Students and Their Negotiation of Patriarchal Privilege Across Literacies and Literary Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents four studies on gender and masculinities that explore the complex ways adolescent male students negotiate and resist discourses and ideologies regarding gender, race, language, and literacy. Four emergent scholars, together with the chair and discussant, welcome members to an interactive presentation and discussion of diverse qualitative and mixed methods research of adolescent male literacies. The research illuminates the ways these ideologies may be internalized or challenged by young men as they work to understand themselves as individuals in the social and academic worlds they inhabit. Findings from these studies challenge simplistic notions of how young men understand and respond to the power and privilege inherent in a male identity within a patriarchal white supremacist culture.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Studies of the multiple languages and literacies of varied social contexts

Chair

• Stephanie R. Jones, University of Georgia

Papers

• "Can I Say They're More Vibrant?" Gender and Literacy in Gendered English Classes - Christopher Parsons, University of Michigan

• "I Don't Think Books Can Be Girly or Boy-ey": Adolescent Boys' Gendered Notions of Reading - Megan Munson-Warnken, The University of Vermont

• Intersectional Identities and Literacy Participation in Youth-Centered Social Justice Work - Abigail Rombalski, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Stylizing Language and Performing Masculinities: An Immigrant Adolescent Boy's Identity Negotiation and Language Learning - Kongji Qin, New York University

Discussant

• Elizabeth M. Dutro, University of Colorado Boulder