Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
421 p, Contents: Theorizing Caribbean masculinities: Masculinities in transition : gender and the global problematique / Keith Nurse. Unmasking masculinity and deconstructing patriarchy : problems and possibilities within feminist epistemology / Patricia Mohammed. Power games and totalitarian masculinity in the Dominican Republic / E. Antonio de Moya -- Gender socialization, educational performance and peer group relations: Boys of the empire : elite education and the construction of hegemonic masculinity in Barbados, 1875-1920 / Aviston D. Downes. Male privileging and male "academic underperformance" in Jamaica / Mark Figueroa. Masculinities, myths and educational underachievement : Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines / Odette Parry. History, (re)memory, testimony and biomythography : charting a buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Class, ethnicity, nation and notions of masculinity: Black masculinity in Caribbean slavery / Hilary Beckles. Caribbean masculinity at the fin de siècle / Linden Lewis. Globalization, migration and the shaping of masculinity in Belize / Linda M. Matthei and David A. Smith -- Popular culture and literary images of masculinity and femininity: Under women's eyes : literary constructs of Afro-Caribbean masculinity / Paula Morgan. Calling all dragons : the crumbling of Caribbean masculinity / Kenneth Ramchand. I Lawa : the construction of masculinity in Trinidad and Tobago calypso / Gordon Rohlehr. Uniform and weapon / Christopher Cozier
Argues that for a truly cosmopolitan anthropology to come about, we need to reflect critically on the conditions of our knowledge production. Using the example of women’s under-representation within anthropology, and the marginalization of the Caribbean, it is argued that we need to think more about the social ground beneath our feet and recognize the differential access that anthropologists across the globe and at home have to the ongoing larger conversation that constitutes the discipline.
The author explores themes of Black masculinity using both historic and contemporary examples. He discusses "neoliberal" expectations regarding sexual orientation, family life, and self-fulfillment. He explores alternate definitions of gender as exhibited in the self-portraits by Abdi Osman and Syrus Ware.
