(B). In the article Defining Black Masculinity as Cultural Property the authors illustrate that the publics portrayals of Blacks as violent are often misguided and unjustly framed. Several recent studies have confirmed that the media tend to reinforce racial stereotypes, social deviancy, and delinquency of black males. Interestingly when news about a white shooter breaks it usually leads with a gunman fires shots or a gunman kills, and after they identify the shooter he is referred to by name. Or you read 24 year old Johnny whatever has been identified as the shooter. When it’s a person of color, you almost get his whole demographic. I recently read a headline the other day that said, “LA Times label black shooter as white supremacist. That’s …show more content…
These five factors that affect Black masculine positionality are important aspects of repositioning Black masculinities to counter pathological depictions of Black masculinity. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung contended that the self is naturally motivated to move toward growth, perfection, and completion. The ultimate symbol of the self is the mandala, a diagram that contains a circle inside of a square or vice versa. The dialect between the shapes is consistent with the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious elements of the self; hence, the combination of the three represents the total self, which is in constant pursuit of balance and wholeness. Because we as humans are naturally incomplete, we often strive toward perfection and balance, and sometimes this is done on a most subconscious level. We often behave in ways that are meant to evoke recognition, approval, and validation. Black masculine persons define the spaces where they live. Place, space, home and territory describe positions of the self in society. Home is represents privacy, self-protection, shelter, and comfort. Place, space, and territory are public terms that fuse the constitutive features of adjacency, interconnectedness, isolation, possession, yet fragmented. Both accent a void that needs to be filled. The motivation to do so characterizes struggle, but the behavioral quest is about