Toward an Embodied Black Male Feminism

• In Event: Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: Student Learning and Development in Higher Education Poster Session

Abstract

Much of the scholarship on Black college men’s gender identity development converges on the profound role men’s valuation of hegemonic masculinity play in how men perform their masculinities. However, an understudied developmental pathway is how do cisgender Black men develop progressive masculinities. That is to say, what type of co/curricular, social, or critical interventions prompt cisgender Black undergraduate men to critically interrogate their gender privilege in a way that promotes productive shifts in perspectives, dispositions, and ultimately anti-patriarchal and anti-sexist behaviors. In order to attend to this knowledge gap, we collected data for this exploratory study, over a semester on the experiences of two Black, cisgender, heterosexual, undergraduate men who were enrolled in a Black Feminisms course.

Authors

• Keon M. McGuire, Arizona State University - Tempe

• Joseph D Sweet, AZ

• Stephen Santa-Ramirez, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Arizona State University

• Terrence McTier, Arizona State University - Tempe