Melinda A. Mills
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479802401
- eISBN:
- 9781479802432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479802401.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
In the final chapter, the author’s focal point is “disappearing difference.” That is, she looks at how multiracial people attempt to blend racial borders or mask the appearance of any racial mixture ...
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In the final chapter, the author’s focal point is “disappearing difference.” That is, she looks at how multiracial people attempt to blend racial borders or mask the appearance of any racial mixture in themselves or their chosen romantic relationships. She situates the discussion in the broader context of a colorist society in which the current racial hierarchy privileges whiteness and penalizes blackness.Less
In the final chapter, the author’s focal point is “disappearing difference.” That is, she looks at how multiracial people attempt to blend racial borders or mask the appearance of any racial mixture in themselves or their chosen romantic relationships. She situates the discussion in the broader context of a colorist society in which the current racial hierarchy privileges whiteness and penalizes blackness.
Benjamin René Jordan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627656
- eISBN:
- 9781469627670
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627656.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Throughout the United States, early Boy Scout officials relied heavily on highly-structured camping and hiking experiences like the Pine Tree Patrol method, Nature Study and its scientific ...
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Throughout the United States, early Boy Scout officials relied heavily on highly-structured camping and hiking experiences like the Pine Tree Patrol method, Nature Study and its scientific classification system, and natural resource conservation activities to teach boy members modern manhood’s values and skills necessary to manage an urban-industrial society and its expert-led government. Administrators insisted that the most important use of natural areas and resources was the “conservation of boyhood,” which entailed managed development of the nation’s key asset (its most capable adolescent boys). By characterizing women and minority and farm boys as too sentimental, selfish, careless, and ignorant to conserve natural resources and interact with nature in other modern and scientific ways, early Boy Scout outdoor programming and imagery helped reinforce a masculine and racial hierarchy of character and citizenship.Less
Throughout the United States, early Boy Scout officials relied heavily on highly-structured camping and hiking experiences like the Pine Tree Patrol method, Nature Study and its scientific classification system, and natural resource conservation activities to teach boy members modern manhood’s values and skills necessary to manage an urban-industrial society and its expert-led government. Administrators insisted that the most important use of natural areas and resources was the “conservation of boyhood,” which entailed managed development of the nation’s key asset (its most capable adolescent boys). By characterizing women and minority and farm boys as too sentimental, selfish, careless, and ignorant to conserve natural resources and interact with nature in other modern and scientific ways, early Boy Scout outdoor programming and imagery helped reinforce a masculine and racial hierarchy of character and citizenship.
