Presentation for Black Masculinities Workshop at Seriously Diep pop-up university

2. Introduction : What is masculinity?
Connell defines masculinity as “...a place in gender relations, the practices
through which men and women engage that place in gender, and the effects
of these practices on bodily experience, personality and culture”.

3. What is “Blackness”?

4. The Masked Nature of Black Masculinity
Promotional image for the Dutch rendition of the play Mogadishu (2013)

5. Gangsta
animalistic, inherently criminal
and sexually unrestrained

6. Gentleman
race transcending, passive, non-
assertive and non-aggressive

8. Slavery and Its Afterlife

10. The (Colonial) Economy of Desire

12. Advertising and marketing, as “unintentional”
structures of (re)producing ideology and affect
in a given society, offer tiny but unrestricted
windows into the non-Black imaginary.

14. Dove

16. Remancipation
FeMANism(e)
Contemporary Representations of Socially Dominant Forms
of Masculinity

18. Good Guy
Bad Guy

19. Good Guy
Bad Guy

20. Bad Guy
Good Guy

21. The Transnational Constructions
of (Black) Identities
Diasporic
Masculinities