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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.47,Issue5,P.609-639

语言

英文

关键字

masculinity; hip-hop; sexuality; HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY; BLACK; IDENTITY; HETERONORMATIVITY; MAINTENANCE; FRATERNITY; HOMOPHOBIA; SEXUALITY; INTERNET; INTIMACY

作者单位

[Randolph, Antonia] Winston Salem State Univ, Dept Behav Sci, Sociol, Winston Salem, NC USA. [Swan, Holly] Abt Associates Inc, Div Hlth & Environm, Wheeler St, Cambridge, MA USA. [Rowe, Kristin Denise] Michigan State Univ, African Amer & African Studies, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA. Randolph, A (reprint author), Winston Salem State Univ, Coltrane Hall 203, Winston Salem, NC 27110 USA. E-Mail: antonia.randolph@cnu.edu

摘要

This paper examines how commenters (N= 290 posts) to an urban gossip blog interpret the meaning of ambiguously sexual behavior: a kiss shared by two male gangsta rappers. It shows that fans use the same interpretive repertoire to come to very different conclusions about the meaning of the rappers' sexual orientation in the wake of the kiss. Other research finds that hegemonic masculinity has expanded to include touch between men as a legitimate expression of heterosexual intimacy, yet that literature ignores or pathologizes marginalized men (Bridges and Pascoe 2014; McCormack and Anderson 2014). Our study makes up for this gap by exploring the frames and concerns native to hip-hop culture that explain how fans label the rappers' sexuality as a result of the kiss. We find that fans are particularly concerned with policing the boundary around thug masculinity, the most valorized form of masculinity within hip-hop culture.