Exaggerated masculinity compensates for disempowerment and symbolizes racial difference

Evidence

An amplified and exaggerated masculinity has become a boastful centrepiece of a culture of compensation that self-consciously salves the misery of the disempowered and subordinated. This masculinity and its relational feminine counterpart become special symbols of the difference that race makes. They are lived and naturalised in the distinct patterns of family life on which the reproduction of their racial identities supposedly lies. These gender identities come to exemplify the immutable cultural differences that apparently arise from absolute ethnic difference. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3002 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The family means-test undermined working-class men’s masculine status — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 215; Racist skinhead masculinity cannot be explained by a single shared psychological drive — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1376; The claim of black male emasculation contradicts lived black patriarchy under segregation — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 219 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Amplified masculinity functions as compensative symbolism for subordinate groups #corroborates (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3002