Border crossing brothas : Black males navigating race, place, and complex space / Ty-Ron M.O. Douglas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, Ty-Ron M. O., 1979- 1979-, author.

Series:

Black studies & critical thinking ; v. 101.

Black studies & critical thinking

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Bermuda Islands.

Black people.

Black people--Bermuda Islands--Social conditions.

Black people--Bermuda Islands--Interviews.

Masculinity--Bermuda Islands.

Masculinity.

Men--Bermuda Islands--Attitudes.

Men.

Men--Bermuda Islands--Interviews.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people--Social conditions.

Men--Attitudes.

Social conditions.

Bermuda Islands.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxv, 210 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Black males navigating race, place, and complex space

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

Border Crossing Brothas examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces (e.g., sport venues, barbershops, churches) to cross literal and figurative borders. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and numerous others from Brooklyn, Britain, and Bermuda whose lives have been taken prematurely suggest that negotiating race, place, and complex space is a matter of life and death for Black males. In jurisdictions such as the U.S. and Bermuda, racial tensions are the palpable and obvious reality, yet the average citizen has no idea how to sensibly react. This book offers a reasonable response that pushes readers to account for and draw on the best of what we know, the core of who we are, and the needs and histories of those we serve. Drawing on the educational and socializing experiences of Black males in Bermuda - a beautiful yet complex island with strong connections to the U.S., England, and the Caribbean - this book offers educators and leaders new language for postcolonial possibilities and emancipatory epistemologies related to Black male identities and success in a global context. Intriguing findings and fresh frameworks grounded in understandings of race, class, ability, transnationalism, culture, colonialism, and the construction/performance of gendered identity emerge in this book. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Context matters

MEsearch, REsearch, WEsearch

Race, space and place: transmitting black masculinities

We ain't no fools: embracing the breadth of education

Amalgamating theories, constructing a conceptual lens to study Black Bermudian identity development

Expect the (un)expected

Black Bermudian males and community-based pedagogical spaces

Exposure to life options: seeing is believing

Layered identities

Afterword: moving forward: freesearch, freeach, freedership

Appendix 1 : Methodological appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433135392

1433135396

9781433135385

1433135388

OCLC:

956775191

Publisher Number:

99969664429

40026578697