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1	African American Athletes and the Negotiation of Public Spaces: An Examination of Athletic Capital and African American Perceptions of Success Lewis, Keona 31 December 2010 (has links) This dissertation explores the culture of sport among African American male football players as well as African American perspectives on sport and success. A case study of six African American, Division 1 FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) collegiate student athletes was conducted along with seventeen supplemental interviews with community members, parents, coaches and former athletes and fans. The participants answered questions that explored education, success, identity construction, ethnicity and sport. Archival data was also reviewed framing the discussion on football in Florida, links between education and sport participation and African American male academic achievement. While many perspectives varied, there were collective trends in relation to how African American Athletes in Florida define themselves as well as their perspectives on ethnicity and sport. The individual perspectives and collective trends are discussed in this dissertation. American Football Florida Male Identity Construction Sport Participation Education American Studies Anthropology Arts and Humanities
2	Performing Self through Social Media: How African American Males (Re) Construct Their Identities, Self-Presentations, and Relationships Offline and Online Parker, Ronald L. January 2015 (has links) No description available. Educational Technology Educational Leadership
3	Exploring the construction of white male identity in selected novels by J.M. Coetzee Dent, Jacqueline Elizabeth May 30 November 2007 (has links) Coetzee's own experience of living in apartheid South Africa provides the backdrop for novels infused with sardonic irony and rich metaphoric systems. In modes of metafiction that emphasize the destructive and violent nature of language, he optimizes his unique oeuvre to interrogate global, national and domestic power relations. This dissertation relies on psychoanalytical theories that examine microstructures of power within the individual, and in his domestic domain. Each of Coetzee's chief protagonists carries a secret related to a dysfunctional mother/son relationship. This hampers their psychosocial dynamics, their masculinity and sexuality. As they respectively strive toward an elusive new life they confront patriarchal power structures that speak on behalf of individuals, '[whose] descent into powerlessness [is] voluntary' (Coetzee 2007: 4-5). Coetzee's constructed white males perform their several identity roles in milieux that span divergent phases of colonial history. His critique points to white patriarchal hegemonic ideological discourses that bespeak the self/other dichotomy in a postcolonial world where the language of dominance supports an oppressive status quo. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Violence, violation and abuse Victims and perpetrators Social taboos Myths History Culture and religion Psychoanalytical theories: Klein Freud Transference Coetzee oeuvre Narration Style Autre-biography 823.914 Whites in literature Gender in literature Narration in literature Violence in literature
4	Exploring the construction of white male identity in selected novels by J.M. Coetzee Dent, Jacqueline Elizabeth May 30 November 2007 (has links) Coetzee's own experience of living in apartheid South Africa provides the backdrop for novels infused with sardonic irony and rich metaphoric systems. In modes of metafiction that emphasize the destructive and violent nature of language, he optimizes his unique oeuvre to interrogate global, national and domestic power relations. This dissertation relies on psychoanalytical theories that examine microstructures of power within the individual, and in his domestic domain. Each of Coetzee's chief protagonists carries a secret related to a dysfunctional mother/son relationship. This hampers their psychosocial dynamics, their masculinity and sexuality. As they respectively strive toward an elusive new life they confront patriarchal power structures that speak on behalf of individuals, '[whose] descent into powerlessness [is] voluntary' (Coetzee 2007: 4-5). Coetzee's constructed white males perform their several identity roles in milieux that span divergent phases of colonial history. His critique points to white patriarchal hegemonic ideological discourses that bespeak the self/other dichotomy in a postcolonial world where the language of dominance supports an oppressive status quo. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Violence, violation and abuse Victims and perpetrators Social taboos Myths History Culture and religion Psychoanalytical theories: Klein Freud Transference Coetzee oeuvre Narration Style Autre-biography 823.914 Whites in literature Gender in literature Narration in literature Violence in literature

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