Re-Presenting Black Masculinities in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me

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dc.contributor.advisorZaki, Hoda
dc.contributor.authorAaouinti-Haris, Asmaa
dc.contributor.departmentArts and Humanitiesen_US
dc.contributor.programHumanitiesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-16T12:40:14Z
dc.date.available2018-04-16T12:40:14Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractTa-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and letter to his son Between the World and Me (2015)—published shortly after the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement—provides a rich and diverse representation of African American male life which is closely connected with contemporary United States society. This study explores how Coates represents and explains black manhood as well as how he defines his own identity as being excluded from United States society, yet as being central to the nation. Coates’s definition of masculinity is analyzed by focusing on his representations of boyhood and fatherhood. By analyzing Coates’s projection of his own role as a man and as a father as well as his complex and multifaceted representations of black manhood, I demonstrate how Coates promotes a caring masculinity and, most importantly, how he presents resistance to hegemonic notions of masculinity. Thus, the goal of this study is to examine the ways in which Coates asserts models for progressive masculinities through his portrayals of boyhood and fatherhood. Coates’s depiction of his adolescence and of black youth in the streets of Baltimore, and his descriptions of fatherhood, particularly of his own role as a father and the depiction of his parents, are key in assessing Coates’s rendering of a caring masculinity.en_US
dc.format.extent80 pagesen_US
dc.genrethesesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M25Q4RP1H
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/8765
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtHood College
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectTa-Nehisi Coatesen_US
dc.subjectBetween the World and Meen_US
dc.subjectblack masculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectstereotypesen_US
dc.subjectfatherhooden_US
dc.subjectcaring masculinityen_US
dc.subjectboyhooden_US
dc.subjectprogressive black masculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectJames Baldwinen_US
dc.subjectmisrecognitionen_US
dc.titleRe-Presenting Black Masculinities in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Meen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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