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- Title
STRUCTURAL APORIA & WHITE MASCULINITIES: WHITE MEN RESPOND TO THE WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE CRITIQUE.
- Authors
Farough, Steven D.
- Abstract
I argue that in order to comprehend how social power operates in everyday life and identity formation, one must understand how the material effects of language are crucial to this process. To demonstrate this, I use the poststructuralist theoretical concept "structural aporia" to analyze how white men's reactions to critical discourses on white masculine privilege are arranged through the logical structure of discourse itself. Structural aporia refers to a logical impasse produced within the regulatory effects of discourse. The use of structural aporia will help demonstrate both how the structure of discourse produces confusion and contradictions within the narratives of white men as they address the white male privilege critique, and how racialized, gender, and economic power operate at the level of identity formation. Keywords: poststructuralism; white masculinity; racial identity; power; white male privilege.
- Subjects
WHITE men; MASCULINITY; PRIVILEGE (Social sciences); POSTSTRUCTURALISM; RACIAL identity of white people; POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 4, p38
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article