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Qualitative exploration of agency and masculinity in Black graduate men, highlighting familial influences and typologies of subversion.
This article uses hermeneutic phenomenology and in-depth interviews to explore how 17 Black graduate men develop and use agency to subvert (or undermine) hegemonic masculine thinking and being. Findings highlight the ways family members (e.g., mothers, fathers, and grandfathers) are influential in developing students’ manhood through agency. In addition, findings offer three typologies of subverting hegemonic masculinities: (a) rejection, (b) response, and (c) responsibility.
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