In two empirical articles, this dissertation investigates how a college organization of black men used the concept of brotherhood to foster personal social mobility among members. Both chapters take advantage of two years of fieldwork and interviews with group members. The first article (chapter 2) explores the process whereby a group of black men on a college campus used the concept of brotherhood to create their own emotion culture. In order to support their emotional and social needs without jeopardizing their manhood status, group leaders promoted brotherhood among their new recruits to encourage emotional expressiveness, vulnerability, and trust. By providing one another with support under the ideology of brotherhood, group members were able to construct an emotion culture to help group members cope with the discrimination they faced as socially mobile black men in predominantly white institutions. In the second article (chapter 3) I analyze how a group of collegiate black men came together as a brotherhood to adopt and present professional behaviors and styles in order to navigate professional settings. These behaviors were designed to evoke in potential employers, campus administrators, faculty, and other students images of positive black men that have been celebrated culturally. As a group of young black men with professional aspirations, group members sought to develop professional self-presentation strategies, and present these presentations to the broader community. Overall, this research shows how group members fostered personal social mobility by providing one another with support and teaching professional behaviors that benefited them during their time in college. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2013. / June 11, 2013. / Black Men, College, Emotions, Gender, Race, Social Mobility / Includes bibliographical references. / Douglas Schrock, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patrick L. Mason, University Representative; Irene Padavic, Committee Member; John Reynolds, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_253382 |
| Contributors | Jackson, Brandon A. (authoraut), Schrock, Douglas (professor directing dissertation), Mason, Patrick L. (university representative), Padavic, Irene (committee member), Reynolds, John (committee member), Department of Sociology (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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