Barbershops as Cultural Forums for African American Males

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ID18965225
AuthorsDavid L Shabazz (0000-0002-9897-9952, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, USA, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume47
Issue4
Pages295-312
Publication date2016-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934716629337
OpenAlexW2327304481
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited21

This ethnographic study explores the social interactions of African American males in an urban, Southeastern barbershop. Barbershops have become frequent research sites for communicating health messages. This study suggests that African American barbershops are discursive spaces where identity is shaped as young men are initiated into manhood and African American culture. Identity is explored through the communication theory of identity perspective. The study initially focuses on the communal aspects of African American male identity to understand how collective group consciousness is shaped. Then I examine how the collective worldview interpenetrates the interactional, relational, and individual levels of identity. Three themes found to recur from social interactions were male bonding, culture-specific history, and argumentation

Aesthetics · Argumentation theory · Collective identity · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Gender Studies · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology

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