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- Title
Homoeroticism, Phallicism and the Racialization of Black/Brown Males: A Historiography of Sexual Racism in America.
- Authors
Ogungbure, Adebayo
- Abstract
The dominant perception that feeds into common narratives about black and brown men today, in America, is that they are hypersexual, hypermasculine, hyperaggressive and dangerous males who are prone to perpetrating sexual violence against white women, particularly rape. This is the upshot of sexual racism within the patriarchal American empire where the "protection" of white women--who are regarded as conservators of the white race, is deemed to be of utmost importance. In this patriarchal system, white masculinity is regarded as the hetero-normative measurement of manhood, so all non-white male bodies are emasculated and are disposed through castration, lynching and death. It is through such emasculation that black and brown male bodies are homoerotically consumed by white males. This culture of homoeroticism is primarily aimed at both denying the masculinity and negating the being of black and brown males--it is a culture of sexual racism which contests the livelihood, possibility, agency and freedom of black and brown men by pathologizing and criminalizing them as rapists, brutes, and social deviants. Although, in popular imagination, such toxic portrayal of black and brown males as rapist is considered a myth, it continues to reverberate in popular discourse, political rhetorics and social policy. In this paper, I show how this popular pathological narrative about black and brown males as rapists is not just a mythic social construction--it is a view founded on a misandrist scientism, though developed within the white patriarchal American empire in the 19th century, continues to be the lens through which black and brown males are perceived.
- Subjects
SEX discrimination against men; PHALLICISM; RACIALIZATION
- Publication
Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2157-1694
- Publication type
Article