Boyz, Boyz, Boyz: New Black Cinema and Black Masculinity

2012 ◽  
pp. 91-110
RevistAleph ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Aurélio Da Conceição Correa

Este ensaio tem a proposta de dar continuidade na crescente discussão sobre as masculinidades negras, reconhecendo que estas são subjugadas como inferiores, devido as raízes coloniais racistas que criam relações assimétricas de poder, cria-se uma masculinidade hegemônica patriarcal do homem branco, hétero e cristão. Esta violência colonial aprisiona até os dias de hoje as subjetividades e as representações do homem negro. O cinema como artefato reprodutor da realidade acaba a dar sequência a estes históricos estereótipos. Porém, existe na atualidade uma emergente criação cinematográfica que busca outras representações estéticas para os corpos e mentes negras. A partir destes filmes pensamos em possibilidades pedagógicas que descolonizem as mentes e ressignifiquem as masculinidades negras. This text has the proposal to continue the growing discussion about black masculinities, recognizing that those are subjugated as inferior because of the racist colonial roots that create asymmetrical relations of power creating the patriarchal hegemonic masculinity of the white, straight and Christian man. This colonial violence imprisons until the present day the subjectivities and representations of the black man. Cinema as a reproductive artifact of reality ends up following these historical stereotypes. However, nowadays there is an emerging cinematic creation that seeks other aesthetic representations for black bodies and minds. From these films we think of pedagogical possibilities that decolonize the minds and resignify the black masculinities.


1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 36-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund T. Gordon

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852098579
Author(s):  
Clive James Nwonka

The racial unrests permeating across Britain in the late 1970s resulted in a set of political agendas responding to racism to be brought into being though legislation, culminating in the passing of the 1976 Race Relations Act. Crucial to such agendas were strategies for the prevention of black urban uprisings against state authority and the politicisation of black youths against racism. The emergence of politicised black British film during the late 1970s offered a crucial counter-hegemonic exploration and re-enactment of an extra-filmic reality of police violence and popular racism within the British body social. However, these texts were subjected to forms of political censorship through a number of state organisations who identified radical black cinema as a political threat with the potential to incite violent responses from black youths. This article will offer a detailed analysis of Babylon (1980) and seeks to investigate the ideological processes leading to its X certification and the moral panic located in its representations of black youths within the crisis of race vis-a-vis the political, social and cultural authority of race relations, situating Babylon’s controversial X certification as an exemplar of the ‘applicational dexterity’ of the race relations discipline.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-229
Author(s):  
Stacey A. Robinson ◽  
John I. Jennings

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