Cool pose: the dilemmas of Black manhood in America
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New York [u.a.]
Macmillan [u.a.]
1992
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| Physical Description: | XV, 144 S. |
| ISBN: | 0669245232 |
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| adam_text | Cool Pose
The Dilemmas of Black Manhood
in America
Richard Majors
Janet Mancini Billson
Lexington Books
An Imprint of Macmillan, Inc
NEW YORK
Maxwell Macmillan Canada
TORONTO
Maxwell Macmillan International
NEW YORK OXFORD SINGAPORE SYDNEY
Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Cool Pose: Expression and Survival 1
The Dilemmas of Black Masculinity 2
What Is Cool Behavior? 3
The Survival Value of Being Cool 5
Anomie and Individual Choices for Achieving
Success 5
Focus on Cool Pose As a Coping Strategy 7
2 Social Stress and Social Symptoms 11
Social Pathology: A Symptom of Oppression 11
Mental Disorders 12
The Disaster of Education 13
Unemployment IS
The Sting of Poverty 1S
Children Too Soon, Too Fast 16
Blacks, Masculinity, and the Military 18
Babies and Men Who Die Too Soon 18
Accidents and Self-Destructive Behaviors 21
Escaping with Alcohol and Drugs 22
Criminality and Incarceration 22
The Interplay of Destructive Forces 24
Cuts in Government Programs 25
3 Cool Pose and Masculinity 27
Playing It Cool 27
A One-Dimensional Image of Maleness 28
Cool As the Ultimate Control 29
viii • Contents
The Tough Side of Cool 29
Masculine Attainment 30
Violence and Masculinity 33
Coolness and Compulsive Masculinity 34
4 In Search of Pride and Manhood 37
The Positive Side of Being Cool 37
The Negative Side of Being Cool 40
Suicide and the Search for Adolescent Identity 45
School Is Not Cool 46
Being Cool and Being Tough 48
Delinquency and Gangs 50
Compromised Race Relations 52
5 The Genesis of Black Masking 55
West African Culture: A Different Metaphor 55
The Roots of Cool in African Culture 57
The Legacy of Slavery: An Exquisite Sensibility 58
The Black Mask 59
Black Acting 61
Shucking 63
Black Humor: I m Still Here, Daddy-O, I m Still
Here 63
Inversion 65
6 The Expressive Life-Style 69
The Spontaneous Self 69
Being Alive 70
The Style Factor 71
Nonverbal Styling 72
Dancing 75
Sports As a Vehicle for Expressiveness 76
7 The Cool Cat Life-Style 79
Portrait of the Cool Cat 79
Clothes and the Cool Cat 80
Cool Wheels 82
Lame to the Bone 83
Why Is Style So Important? 83
Life on the Streets 85
Hustling to Fill the Void 87
Contents • ix
8 Playing the Dozens 91
The Insult War 92
Ritualized Sexuality 93
Rhyming and Expressiveness 95
Ambivalence toward Women 95
Ribbing: Zeroing In on Personal Defects 96
The Crowd As Catalyst 96
A Cruel but Skillful Game 97
Origins of the Dozens 97
Filling the Void: Play and Entertainment 100
Establishing a Rep 100
Keeping Cool with the Dozens 101
9 Summary and Implications 105
Toward a Positive Model of Black Masculinity 106
Suggestions for Social Programs, Intervention, and
Policy Changes 110
In Closing: A Man s Mind Is His Castle 116
Notes 121
Bibliography 127
Index 137
About the Authors 143
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