The Ray Rice Domestic Violence Case

Constructing Black Masculinity Through Newspaper Reports

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2349219
AutoresM Candace Christensen (0000-0003-0013-5813, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA, autor correspondente), Emmett Gill (0000-0002-9033-8560, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA), Alfred Pérez (The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA), Alfred G Pérez (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Ano2016
Volume40
Fascículo5
Páginas363-386
Data de publicação2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723516655576
OpenAlexW2467673823
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas12

This case study used concepts associated with Black masculinity to critically analyze newspaper depictions of the Ray Rice Domestic Violence Case (RRDVC). The pattern matching and content analysis revealed the following themes: colorblindness, binary depictions, and commodification. This article used the RRDVC to establish a persistent pattern of public discourse that situates Black male athletes accused of committing crimes within a series of controlling images depicted by the media that serve to maintain White supremacist patriarchal understandings of Black masculinity. The results of the analysis reveal how hegemonic depictions of Ray Rice serve the White supremacist patriarchy in maintaining the containment and commodification of Black men and perpetuate the acceptability of violence against Black women

Commodification · Content analysis · Criminology · Denial · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Masculinity · Media studies · Newspaper · Patriarchy · Political science · Racism · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies