Against Bipolar Black Masculinity: Intersectionality, Assimilation, Identity Performance, and Hierarchy
Against Bipolar Black Masculinity: Intersectionality, Assimilation, Identity Performance, and Hierarchy
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反对双相黑人男性气质：交叉性、同化、身份表现和等级制度
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2007
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F. Cooper
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我认为异性恋黑人的流行表现是两极分化的。这些形象在一个容易犯罪、性欲亢进的坏黑人和一个远离黑人、与白人规范联系在一起的好黑人之间交替出现。坏黑人标签的威胁为异性恋黑人提供了同化主义动机，让他们表现出与好黑人形象一致的身份。双相黑人男性气概的原因是它有助于解决白人主流的后民权焦虑。这种焦虑源于美国相对较新的决定（即一些黑人值得纳入主流）与长期持续的信念（大多数黑人应该被排除在外）之间的冲突。双极性黑人男性气质通过明确划分哪些黑人值得包容——只有那些符合同化主义理想的黑人——来解决这种焦虑。两极分化的描述证明了大多数黑人被排除在监狱或下层阶级以及只有象征性的少数白人黑人进入主流的现状。我通过利用批判种族女权主义的交叉理论——对种族和性别叙事之间的相互作用的分析——得出了我的结论。交叉性理论通常适用于多重从属者，例如有色人种女性，而不是单一从属者，例如中产阶级异性恋黑人男性。当我们考虑到多元和单一从属的共同利益在击败西方身体缩放认识论体系时，将交叉理论扩展到异性恋黑人是合理的。身体的尺度是这样的假设：我们必须根据规范对身份特征进行排序，并根据这些等级制度组织社会。双极性黑人男子气概试图引诱异性恋黑人接受让他人处于从属地位的权利，作为对我们自己的从属地位的补偿。如果异性恋黑人想要破坏躁郁症黑人男性气质，我们就必须拒绝接受服从他人的权利，并构建一种反等级制度的黑人男性气质。
I contend that popular representations of heterosexual black men are bipolar. Those images alternate between a Bad Black Man who is crime-prone and hypersexual and a Good Black Man who distances himself from blackness and associates with white norms. The threat of the Bad Black Man label provides heterosexual black men with an assimilationist incentive to perform our identities consistent with the Good Black Man image. The reason for bipolar black masculinity is that it helps resolve the white mainstream's post-civil rights anxiety. That anxiety results from the conflict between the nation's relatively recent determination that some black men merit inclusion into the mainstream and its longer-standing and ongoing belief that most black men should be excluded. Bipolar black masculinity addresses that anxiety by clearly demarcating which black men merit inclusion - only those who fit the assimilationist ideal. Bipolar depictions justify the status quo of the exclusion of most black men into jail or the lower-classes and the inclusion of only a token few white-acting black men into the mainstream. I draw my conclusions by utilizing Critical Race Feminism's intersectionality theory - analysis of the interplay between race and gender narratives. Intersectionality theory is usually applied to the multiply subordinated, such as women of color, rather than the singly subordinated, such as middle-class heterosexual black men. Extending intersectionality theory to heterosexual black men is justifiable when we consider the shared interests of the multiply and singly subordinated in defeating the Western epistemological system of the scaling of bodies. The scaling of bodies is the assumption that we must rank identity characteristics against a norm and organize society according to those hierarchies. Bipolar black masculinity seeks to seduce heterosexual black men into accepting the right to subordinate others as compensation for our own subordination. If heterosexual black men are to disrupt bipolar black masculinity, we must refuse to accept the right to subordinate others and construct an antihierarchical black masculinity.