Black Guys and White Guise

The Discursive Construction of White Masculinity

Bibliographic Data

ID2365367
AuthorsM W Hughey (0000-0002-6456-5663, Mississippi State University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume41
Issue1
Pages95-124
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241611431580
OpenAlexW2158700851
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited61

This article explores how discursive repertories about black masculinity inform the construction of white masculinity in two settings assumed diametrically opposed: white nationalists and white antiracists. Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, year-long ethnographic field notes, and content analysis from two nationwide white nationalist and white antiracist organizations, the author finds three common discursive frames to saturate both groups' discourse: black male dysfunctionalism, paternalistic surveillance of black masculinity, and the patriarchal protection of femininity from black masculinity. Through these shared patterns, both groups rationalize essentialist, racist, and unequal social relations and thus reproduce white masculine identity as normative, functional, and superior

Aesthetics · Art · Essentialism · Ethnography · Femininity · Field (mathematics · Identity (music · Masculinity · Nationalism · Normative · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics