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Browsing by Subject "Masculinities"

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    Performing Masculinities: The Impact of Racialization, Space, and Cultural Practices on Hmong Immigrant Youth
    (2014-08) Smalkoski, Kari
    Although several research studies have been conducted on second generation Hmong youth and families, little is known about the latest wave of Hmong immigrants, the Wat Tham Krabok (WTK) Hmong, who arrived in the U.S. between 2004-2006. In addition, literature on the Hmong still relies heavily on model minority tropes steeped in meritocracy narratives. This research examines the experiences of WTK Hmong youth who live in predominately African American urban neighborhoods and are bussed to predominately white suburban schools. Three years of ethnographic fieldwork in multiple sites was conducted between 2009-2011 and 2012-2013. The research examines ways that WTK Hmong males, in particular, have been racialized in spaces of institutions which has significantly impacted their relationships with families, attitudes about schooling, and perceptions about their futures. Although youth have experienced vast amounts of parent-child conflict, these experiences are not simplified as intergenerational familial conflict; rather, a complex, dynamic, and critical representation of youths' lives is illuminated through their insights and perspectives told from their point of view. In addition, youths' experiences are analyzed within larger structural structures and processes. Emphasis is given to the everyday violence that Hmong males have experienced in schools. The research problematizes the ways school officials use no tolerance "race neutral" policies which allow violence and misunderstandings to fester between Hmong youth and their African American peers. A significant finding in the research is that WTK Hmong male youth are ignored, unprotected, and experience intensive social isolation in schools and in many cases, their families. In response, youth resist by creating protective spaces which involve alternative masculinities and built-in peer support networks through cultural practices. The analysis extends conventional scholarship of masculinities by exploring how racialized masculinities are a site for discipline and disempowerment of WTK Hmong youth while providing spaces for provisionally empowering forms of agency and resistance through cultural practices. Youth must have access to cultural practices through out-of-school programs as they have the potential to create social capital that connect them to academic success and social integration, offering them opportunities to engage with their families and schools in meaningful ways.
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    Talking Gender and Masculinities with Young Men: Situating Women in Men's Narratives in Rural UP
    (2021-06) Chatterji, Devleena
    In 2021, gender empowerment and equality have become household terms in India, but gender violence in various forms has also increased substantially. There is a puzzle here- how can violence and empowerment go hand in hand? A critical offshoot of this puzzle in India where caste hierarchy is deeply embedded in every social problem is that Dalit and subordinate caste men have been grossly vilified by the feminist movement which has been a space largely occupied by dominant-caste women. This problem is messy between caste and gender complexities. My study dives into exploring these complexities by highlighting young Dalit men’s narratives. Do men, including young Dalit men, have a role in sustaining gender discrimination and patriarchal structures? They do. But what is this patriarchal structure that they find so hard to push back against and where does it come from? Brahmanical Patriarchy, a water-tight model that has sustained gender and caste discrimination describes how we live in societies that are shaped by gender, caste, and economic relationships, and in turn shape them through our decisions and actions. The term conveys ideas that are deep and complex, very similar to how the participants in this study, who are young Dalit boys from rural UP, describe their lived experiences in the form of narratives. This study advances three main arguments: First, I follow Nagar’s approach, and through an intersectional analysis that deeply intertwines my narratives with that of the participants’, this study demonstrates the possibilities of building critical solidarities where power differences are insurmountable through honest and open communication. Second, it complicates the idea that violence does not happen in a vacuum and young men are not born perpetrators but enabled through narrative tropes that come from tenets of Brahmanical Patriarchy. And finally, using an intersectional approach I add nuance and narratives that the ways in which Dalit women face a unique form of oppression that dominant caste (savarna) women do not. In addition, this study also touches on the struggles that young men from Dalit families face given the heightened state of uncertainty that circumscribes their daily lives. At large, this study reveals how gender violence, especially in intimate relationships, gets normalized through narrative tropes. Finally, despite the limitation of this study with only Dalit men as participants, I argue that narrative tropes constitute the very fabric of Brahmanical Patriarchy, and certain dispositions and prejudices towards women, exist irrespective of caste affiliation.