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This article excavates the voices of urban black males as they “speak their name” (Belton, 1996) in a society that denies them this right. Based on data gathered in a large-scale ethnographic interview study of urban America, the authors traverse the spoken lives of these men, as they weave stories about neighborhood and state violence, opportunities denied and missed, and the current power of black men's groups in the church. Through their day-to-day lives urban black men challenge social representations about them in racist America, constructing an alternative hegemonic masculinity revolving around relationships, fatherhood, and dignity.
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Professor of Sociology of Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo
Completed her Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo and is now a practicing psychologist at Claremont Colleges
Current graduate student at CUNY
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Weis, L., Fine, M., Shepherd, T. et al. “We Need to Come Together and Raise Our Kids and Our Communities Right”: Black Males Rewriting Social Representations. The Urban Review 31, 125–152 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023255606924
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