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Race is the modality (manner, way) in which class is lived, writes theAmerican studies scholar Paul Gilroy in his book The Black Atlantic: Modernity andDouble Consciousness. Seakin! o" hi#ho, he ar!ues that $a%n amli"ied ande&a!!erated masculinity $and its "eminine counterart% has become the boast"ul

centreiece o" a culture o" comensation that sel"#consciously salves the misery o"the disemowered and subordinated. 's Gilroy ri!ht And is this "orm o"masculinity also "ound in other oular !enresblues, R * +, unk, indie rock,country, and discoor mi!ht they o""er artists and listeners alternative "orms o"masculinity and "emininity

LOOKIN' FOR THE REAL NIGGA by Robin Kelly

hile culturalists insist that the behavior o" the urban oor e&lains theiroverty, the structuralists ar!ue that the economy e&lains their behavioras well as their overty.

-ulturalists treat behavior and culture as one and the same and ar!uethat a common attitude or behavior is what makes u the underclass,not their income

de"inition driven by moral anic and not by systematic analysis the roblem with this is that there are not set boundaries as to what

de"ines the behaviors o" the underclass

criminals, wel"are reciients, sin!le mothers, absent "athers, addicts,uvenile youths, married emloyed "athers who send virtually notime with their kids and obless unwed "athers articiatin! andsharin! in child care resonsibilities, eole with obs en!a!in! inillicit activities and some obless eole deendin! on churchcharity

Charles Henry's characteristics of the n!er an! ""er classes#Culture of Wealth

UNDERCLASS

reection or denial o" hysical attributes (tannin! booths, wei!ht#loss salons)

rootlessness (havin! no basis o" stability)

antisocial behavior

makin! irrational decisions (e&/ ownin! several di""erent homes)

"re0uent rivate social and dinin! clubs

havin! many useless ossessions

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UPPERCLASS

crime

se&ism

bad health

divorce

child searations, boardin! schools, materialism

black culture as an adatation to racism and overtyHI$%HO$ FE&INIT byJoan Morgan

1 0uestions that she oses

why can2t there be "eminism alon! with an areciation "or hi#homasculinity

Se&ism may be a very real art o" my li"e but so is the unwaverin! belie"that there is no dream ' can2t ursue and achievesimly because ' am awoman ! 345

was lookin! "or the tye o" "eminism that doesn2t deict women asvictims, but rather hels them "i!ure out who they are individually

"eminism is not a black and white thin!, even thou!h most considered itto be

victim/ women6 oressor/ men

7or!an needed a tye o" "eminism that was brave enou!h to "uckwith the !rays