Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Communication
Major Professor
Aisha S. Durham, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Frederick Steier, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Chris McRae, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Gary L. Lemons, Ph.D.
Keywords
art-based research, autoethnography, black popular culture, media studies
Abstract
In this autoethnographic dissertation, I take readers on a narrative journey to three of my storied homeplaces and explore my lived experiences within each site. In the process of exploring my homeplaces, I analyze how I perform my black masculine self within the context of each location, how my cultural body supports and challenges hegemonic black masculinity, and how each location constrains and frees up my performance of self. With this dissertation, I will contribute to the field of communication studies by extending the method and writing practice of autoethnography, the theorization of the black masculine, and the exploration of black masculine performances represented in popular culture.
Scholar Commons Citation
McFerguson, Marquese Lamont, "When the Beat Drops: Exploring Hip Hop, Home and Black Masculinity" (2020). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/8321
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Communication Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons
