Men Walk in Parallel!

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
C. Kemal Nance
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Male Body ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Historical Representations

C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance performer, as well as through a series of interviews with Baba Chuck Davis. Centering an analysis of gender and sexuality, Nance explores the scripted nature of these discourses while addressing the ideological implications of historical representations of the black male body, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the field of African dance in the United States.

scholarly journals Exploring Experiences and Perceptions of Older African American Males Aging With HIV in the Rural Southern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Blake ◽  
Gloria A. Jones Taylor ◽  
Richard L. Sowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Living With Hiv

The HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic in the United States remains a serious public health concern. Despite treatment and prevention efforts, approximately 50,000 new HIV cases are transmitted each year. Estimates indicate that 44% of all people diagnosed with HIV are living in the southern region of the United States. African Americans represent 13.2% of the United States population; however, 44% (19,540) of reported new HIV cases in 2014 were diagnosed within this ethnic group. The majority of cases were diagnosed in men (73%, 14,305). In the United States, it is estimated that 21% of adults living with HIV are 50 years or older. There exists limited data regarding how well African American men are aging with HIV disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of older African American men living with HIV in rural Georgia. Data were collected from 35 older African American men living with HIV using focus groups and face-to-face personal interviews. Qualitative content analysis revealed six overlapping themes: (1) Stigma; (2) Doing Fine, Most of the Time; (3) Coping With Age-Related Diseases and HIV; (4) Self-Care; (5) Family Support; and (6) Access to Resources. The findings from this study provide new insights into the lives of rural HIV-infected African American men, expands our understanding of how they manage the disease, and why many return to or remain in rural communities.

Homelessness and HIV-Associated Risk Behavior Among African American Men Who Inject Drugs and Reside in the Urban South of the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (S2) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
David R. Holtgrave ◽  
Sara Head ◽  
Benjamin Hadsock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban South

scholarly journals Managing Hypertension in African American Men

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elise Eubanks ◽  
Elisa Mone't Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nursing Graduate ◽  
College Of Nursing

Hypertension is the "silent killer" especially in African Americans in the United States specifically, African American men. Two Prairie Viw A&M University's College of Nursing graduate students implemented a project to educate African American men on the management of hypertension in Houston's 3rd Ward neighborhood where they feel most comfortable...the barbershop.

Mortality, Incarceration, and African American Disenfranchisement in the Contemporary United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cottrell ◽  
Michael C. Herron ◽  
Javier M. Rodriguez ◽  
Daniel A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Right

On account of poor living conditions, African Americans in the United States experience disproportionately high rates of mortality and incarceration compared with Whites. This has profoundly diminished the number of voting-eligible African Americans in the country, costing, as of 2010, approximately 3.9 million African American men and women the right to vote and amounting to a national African American disenfranchisement rate of 13.2%. Although many disenfranchised African Americans have been stripped of voting rights by laws targeting felons and ex-felons, the majority are literally “missing” from their communities due to premature death and incarceration. Leveraging variation in gender ratios across the United States, we show that missing African Americans are concentrated in the country’s Southeast and that African American disenfranchisement rates in some legislative districts lie between 20% and 40%. Despite the many successes of the Voting Rights Act and the civil rights movement, high levels of African American disenfranchisement remain a continuing feature of the American polity.

Narrating Interracial Relations and the Negotiation of Public Spaces

10.1068/d333 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A Tyner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Interracial Relations ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of

Although interracial (hetero)sexual relations are no longer illegal, and the number of visible, consensual interracial partnerships has increased, there still remains a discourse against these social arrangements circulating in the United States that continues to bear the traces of the history of antimiscegenation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the everyday negotiation of public spaces of an African-American man as he participates in interracial (heterosexual relations. With a theoretical debt to both Lefebvre and de Certeau, and employing a narrative approach, I highlight the complex interactions of race, gender, and sexuality, and how these are manifest spatially. Through this narrative, moreover, I demonstrate how resistance to one form of hegemony (racism) may simultaneously contribute to the augmentation of other forms of dominance (patriarchy).

Dance Rooted in the Movements of Bedford-Stuyvesant

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Indira Etwaroo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
Historical Periods

Reinterpreting the works of choreographers Kariamu Welsh and Ronald K. Brown as ethnographies of Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Indira Etwaroo situates Welsh’s and Brown’s respective bodies of work from two historical periods as artistic expressions shaped by the Great Migration, the Black Arts and Black Power movements, and the daily realities of mid and late 20th Century African-American urban life. As examples of “Neo-traditional African dance,” Etwaroo explores how Welsh and Brown recalibrated traditional African dance aesthetics for North American and European performance contexts that were quite distinct from those rooted in traditional African societies. As Welsh and Brown addressed current African-American political events in their works, they secured a contemporary relevance for the historically rooted dance aesthetics they pioneered. Etwaroo also places Welsh and Brown within a long tradition of African-American dance choreographers and explores Welsh’s influence on Brown as evidence of an established neo-traditional African dance ethos in the United States, which constitutes a tradition in its own right.

Community Healing and Reconciliation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Kirven ◽  
George Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Potential Models ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Community Healing

Community healing and reconciliation have been a focus of many nations in response to civil war, genocide, and other conflicts. There have been increasing numbers of high-profile murders of African-American youths in the United States over the past 10 years. This article provides an overview of gun violence and its effects on African-American youths. Sanford, Florida, and Cleveland, Ohio, experienced the murders of Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, and the responses of the cities will be highlighted. The two cities provide potential models by communities to address historical injustices in the aftermath of high-profile fatal black male tragedies.

BLACK MALE EXCEPTIONALISM?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Butler
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Males ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Male Achievement

Abstract“Black male exceptionalism” is the premise that African American men fare more poorly than any other group in the United States. The discourse of Black male exceptionalism presents African American men as an “endangered species.” Some government agencies, foundations, and activists have responded by creating “Black male achievement” programs. There are almost no corresponding “Black female achievement” programs. Yet empirical data does not support the claim that Black males are burdened more than Black females. Without attention to intersectionality, Black male achievement programs risk obscuring Black females and advancing patriarchal values. Black male achievement programs also risk reinforcing stereotypes that African American males are violent and dangerous. An intersectional approach would create space for Black male focused interventions, but require parity for Black female programs.

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