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Inequality and Stratification

Richard Mora

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'Dicks Are For Chicks': Latino Boys, Masculinity, And The Abjection Of Hiomosexuality, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis Jan 2013

'Dicks Are For Chicks': Latino Boys, Masculinity, And The Abjection Of Hiomosexuality, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis

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Employing social constructivist theories and the concept of abjection from gender studies, this article examines how and why a group of low-income, USA-born Dominican and Puerto Rican middle-school boys constructed masculine identities by invoking and repudiating homosexuality. Ethnographic data from a 2.5-year study indicate that the abjection of homosexuality was a place of performativity wherein the boys utilised their bodies, cultural referents, and bilingualism to delineate masculinity, reiterate heteronormativity, and distance themselves from homosexuals, who they perceived as a threat to their sexuality, personal safety, and physical dominance. At school, the boys enacted a hypermasculine, heteronormative variant of their ethno-racial …


“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora May 2012

“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora

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The literature on masculinity lacks thorough and sustained in situ examinations of how diverse boys employ their bodies to construct masculine identities during pubescence. To address this gap, the present article examines how a group of 10 sixth-grade Latino boys, who publicly acknowledged that they were experiencing puberty, employed their bodies at school to construct their masculine identities. The data suggest that among the boys, puberty was a social accomplishment connected to masculine enactments informed by the dominant gendered expectations of peers at school and in their neighborhoods, the hegemonic masculine practices espoused by commercial hip hop rappers, and the …


“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis Dec 2011

“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis

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No abstract provided.


Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation, Richard Mora Dec 2010

Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation, Richard Mora

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No abstract provided.


Model Minority, Richard Mora Dec 2010

Model Minority, Richard Mora

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No abstract provided.


Charter Schools, Market Capitalism, And Obama’S Neoliberal Agenda., Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis Dec 2010

Charter Schools, Market Capitalism, And Obama’S Neoliberal Agenda., Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis

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No abstract provided.


Monitor The Future Survey, Richard Mora Dec 2010

Monitor The Future Survey, Richard Mora

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No abstract provided.


Joaquín Murrieta, Richard Mora Dec 2010

Joaquín Murrieta, Richard Mora

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No abstract provided.


Learning To Walk In Someone Else’S Shoes: Review Of The Promotion Of Social Awareness: Powerful Lessons From The Partnership Of Developmental Theory By Robert L. Selman, Richard Mora Dec 2003

Learning To Walk In Someone Else’S Shoes: Review Of The Promotion Of Social Awareness: Powerful Lessons From The Partnership Of Developmental Theory By Robert L. Selman, Richard Mora

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No abstract provided.