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No B-Grades, Fakes, or Variants: Commodification, Performance, and Mis- and Disembodied Black Masculinity

Bush, Christina
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275504449

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2010, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, African-American and African Studies.
Despite the fictitiousness of their fixedness, in the popular cultural imaginary, masculinity and maleness are often conflated, while blackness is frequently gendered male. Through a critical analysis of various sites of mis- and disembodied black masculinity, specifically advertising and corporate branding, sneaker culture, and masculine identified queer women, No B-Grades, Fakes, or Variants: Commodification, Performance, and Mis- and Disembodied Black Masculinity examines how and why racialized and gendered performances of authenticity that are maintained in the absence of the bodies they are commonly associated with work to expose the myth of entrenched corporeal scripts, and provide the possibility for re-configuration and re -imagination of identity.
Maurice Stevens (Committee Chair)
Rebecca Wanzo (Committee Member)
Simone Drake (Committee Member)
77 p.
African Americans
black masculinity; sneakers; race

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  • Bush, C. (2010). No B-Grades, Fakes, or Variants: Commodification, Performance, and Mis- and Disembodied Black Masculinity [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275504449

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bush, Christina. No B-Grades, Fakes, or Variants: Commodification, Performance, and Mis- and Disembodied Black Masculinity. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275504449.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bush, Christina. "No B-Grades, Fakes, or Variants: Commodification, Performance, and Mis- and Disembodied Black Masculinity." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275504449

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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