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Kendall's It's Raining Patriarchy - Coggle Diagram
Kendall's
It's Raining Patriarchy
Patriarchal values play a huge role in marginalized communities because they are mostly homogenous communities.
Majority of people advocate these traditional gender roles for their children. They advise their children to stay in school and work and stay away from drugs. These children are still profiled and arrested at higher rates than their white or middle class counterparts.
There are in these communities a small minority (typically young men), who because they were kicked out of school or work, seek to avoid poverty through illicit activities or underground economies. Due to the lack of respect that these young men receive from their jobs or other men, they turn to force submission and respect from women
Participation from young men in this toxic environment creates a
Hypermasculine
culture, that teaches young men to turn to violence, and gang culture
This Hypermasculine gang culture was not born out of media, but as a reaction to the violence that these communities faced due to Jim Crow, and Segregation. Violence from police led to the removal of central figures of many families. The war on drugs also accelerated this process. The incarceration of Black Men during this era removed them from their families for decades. This of course led to Black wealth stagnating while everything else seemed to rise.
Many Black families were left without men working jobs, so this is where the erasure of the Black nuclear family started. With so many men incarcerated many black women started to adhere to patriarchal standards just to maybe have a new partner. Many women however felt as of they didn't need anyone.
The new Black patriarchy still fails to save anyone.
Young Black men who subscribe to this idealogy still face high murder and homicide rates. Highlighting the need to battle hypermasculinity.
Young women of color face a plethora of issues when living in this new patriarchy.
Hypersexualization of their bodies.
Adultification which sees children of color as older than they really are and removes the essence of innocence that children have.
General biases and practices that fail to see these young women as human.
Safety. These young women are not safe as the patriarchy preys on them. The system also fails to protect them when there is injustice perpetrated. Erasure plays a big factor in this, and it forces these women to navigate life on their own.
Code switching becomes an important part of these young girls lives just for a chance to be treated as equals, and this forces these young girls to not fully present themselves.
Survival becomes a daily practice for these women among the issues of racial profiling from police, and general violence. These women fight to not just preserve themselves but their culture.
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Black Feminism thus becomes the antithesis to this hypermasculinity. Black Feminism plays a special role because it sees the necessity to fight white supremacist patriarchy, while also battling inner community patriarchy. Black Feminists do want to see these men that are affected by racism succeed but not at the cost of keeping Black Women down.
The rise of hypermasculine culture brings violence, sexism, abuse, homophobia, and racism. There needs to be structures that challenge the old ways and recognize the failure of education systems that fail the people.