Rawls-Duck2017

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Rawls-Duck2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Rawls-Duck2017
Author(s) Anne Warfield Rawls, Waverly Duck
Title “Fractured Reflections” of High-Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Nonrecognition of Identity as a “Tacit” Form of Institutional Racism
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Tag(s) EMCA, Racism, Race, Identity, Self-presentation, Institutions, Black, Power, Interviews, Authority
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Year 2017
Language English
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Journal Sociological Focus
Volume 50
Number 1
Pages 36–51
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DOI 10.1080/00380237.2016.1218215
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Abstract

This article examines the effects of “tacit” expectations about race, which are institutionalized in an Interaction Order that frames how we “see” high-status occupational identity. There is an essential moment in presenting Self before Other(s) when it is the turn of the Other(s) to recognize, respond to, and ratify that presentation. The Self is a social accomplishment that requires mutual cooperation from others. Failure to recognize and ratify competent presentations of self, reported frequently by black men, can strip those presentations of the social identity they claim and the dignity, power, and authority associated with that identity. We argue that these “tacit” expectations about identity follow black men wherever they go—no matter how successful they are. Using accounts drawn from interviews, we examine the persistent failure of Others to recognize and ratify high-status black male identities and the legitimate authority they carry.

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