Branded Thoughts

Why its hard for black men to be vulnerable.


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In this episode, I breakdown some of my family history to help connect my ideas surrounding masculinity and being vulnerable for black men. Also, the socialized definition of masculinity* is not to be feminine. -book reference: “Dude, You're a Fag Masculinity and Sexuality in High School” by Cj Pascoe (because I feel like black men are the most homophobic) -When Frantz Fanon claimed that “the black is not a man,” he conducted a critique of humanism that showed that the human in its contemporary articulation is so fully racialized that no black man could qualify as human. In his usage, the formulation was also a critique of masculinity, implying that the black man is feminine by nature. And the implication of that formulation would be that no one who is not a “man” in the masculine sense is a human, suggesting that both masculinity and racial privilege shore up the notion of the human.
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Branded ThoughtsBy KiShawn Pritchett2