THE JOURNAL OF BLACK MASCULINITY
The Journal of Black Masculinity is an international peer-reviewed publication that provides multiple perspectives and analyses of Black and Multi-racial Masculinities across the Diaspora. The journal is published in print edition twice a year and has a ten percent (10%) acceptance rate. We welcome works from all disciplines to include, art, poetry, and fiction. ISSN 2158-9623
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Announcements
The Journey to Loving Black Men: (Re)Presentation, Transgressive Black Masculinities, and Acts of Revolution
C. P. Gause
President Barack Obama: Through a Queer Lens
Jay Poole
Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman: A Watershed Mark in the History of African American Theater
Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon
African Americans’ Double Consciousness after the Election of Barack Obama: “This is America after All”
Bettina L. Love & Brandelyn Tosolt
He Always Talked About How Wrong It Was: Stories From African American DL/MSM...........
Priscilla Gann Wilson, Karla D. Carmichael, & Heather M. Pleasants
Unraveling the Du Boisian Freedom W.E.B: Evolving Concepts of Race, Democracy, and Empire in the Twentieth Century America...........
Ibram H. Rogers
I Know Not-A Poem
Andrea Lee
The Impact of Television Portrayals of Fatherhood and Its Influence on Black Masculinity: Video Clip Reflection Responses of Five African American Fathers in Southern Nevada...........
Theodore S. Ransaw
The War on Obama: The Conservative News Media’s Portrayal of Barack Obama...........
Joshua K. Wright
Introduction: A People in Crisis: The Continuing Saga of Racism, and the Enduring Struggle for Health Care Justice for African Americans
Darron T. Smith
Guest Commentary: How the “Affordable Care Act” Will Help Narrow the Gap
Honorable Congressman Hank Johnson
Articles
Dirty Hands and Unclean Practice: How Medical Neglect and the Preponderance of Stress Illustrates How Medicine Harms Rather Than Helps
Darron Smith
Between Hope and Racial Battle Fatigue
William A. Smith, Man Hung, and Jeremy D. Franklin
Racism, the Social Determinants of Health, and Health Inequities Among Black Americans
Daniel S. Goldberg
Health Behaviors of African American Emerging Adult Males
Rhonda K. Lewis and Jamilia Sly
Cardell K. Jacobson
Injecting Illness: An Analysis of the Role Institutional Inequality Plays in Health Disparity among African American Women
Zinobia Bennefield
Night-Crawlers: The Potential Health Risks Associated with Criminogenic Masculinity and Clubbing
Steven R. Cureton
Help-Seeking Among Older African American Men
Lisa Hines
Introduction to the Issue
“Never into the Same River Twice”: Gendered Identity in a Landscape of Change
Preston L. McKever-Floyd, Guest Editor
Articles
The Honor of American Male Slaves
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Genderization in Male Autobiographical Narratives in Nigeria
Ogunyemi Christopher Babatunde
Swagga: Fashion, Kinaesthetics and Gender in Dancehall and Hip-Hop
Lena Delgado de Torres
Man Up: Hip Hop, Religion and Masculine Work
Ronald Neal
On Intersectionality and Cultural Appropriation: The Case for Postmillenial Black Hipness
Robin James
Book Review
Making Space for Diverse Masculinities: Difference, Intersectionality, and Engagement in an Urban High School, Lance T. McCready
Sharon Lee White
Journal of Black Masculinity
Volume 1, No. 2 Spring 2011
Journal of Black Masculinity
Volume 1, No. 1 Fall 2010
Contents
From the Beginnings: Ripping the Veil by Queering Black
Masculinities by C. P. Gause, Ph.D.
Still by Aubrey Lynch, II
Brother by TLH
“BF” (Black Face) by C. P. Gause, Ph.D.
Hip Hop Culture: A Way to Be Black by Eloise Tan, Ph.D.
Reframing Black Male Homosociality as Critical Spaces to Explore
Black Masculinity by Anthony R. Keith, Jr.
Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man: Examining Masculinity and
Femininity in Gay Black Men on the Cable Television Show
Noah’s Arc by Alfred Martin
“Quittin’ Time!” Exploring Black Masculinities in the Film Gone
With The Wind by Jay Poole, Ph.D.
Patriotism: A Love Story by Toby S. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Book Review - And Then There Was Baldwin: Memory,
Masculinity, and the Blues by Robert E. Randolph, Jr.
The People
The Journal of Black Masculinity
Editor & Founder:
C. P. Gause
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Copy, Layout & Associate Editor in Residence:
Ruth Reese
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Book Editor:
Robert Randolph
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Editorial Advisory Board
Dennis Carlson, Miami University
Marquis A. Coleman, Greensboro, N. C.
Susan Dennison, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Toby Jenkins, George Mason University
Ralph Soney, Roanoke-Chowan Community College
Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary
Leila Villaverde, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Lemuel Watson, University of South Carolina
Editorial Review Board
Tony Lamair Burks, San Diego, CA
Daniel Chapman, Georgia Southern University
Steve Cureton, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Kim Creasy, Slippery Rock University
Rochelle Garner, Dayton, OH
Gary Guinyard, Columbia, SC
Pamela Fitzpatrick, Chapel Hill, NC
Preston McKever-Floyd, Coastal Carolina University
Jay Poole, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Donyell Roseboro, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
John Slade, North Carolina A&T State University
Darron Smith, Witchita State University