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The making of a culture of Black male respectability at Morehouse
that underlines conservative notions of gender and class-by a
former Spelman student who was once "Miss Morehouse." How does it
feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male
"problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable, an in-depth
examination of graduates of Morehouse College, the nation's only
historically Black college for men. While Black male collegians are
often culturally fetishized for "beating the odds," the image of
Black male success that Morehouse assiduously promotes and
celebrates is belied by many of the realities that challenge the
students on this campus. Saida Grundy offers a unique insider
perspective: a graduate of Spelman college and a former "Miss
Morehouse," Grundy crafts an incisive feminist and sociological
account informed by her personal insights and scholarly expertise.
Respectable gathers the experiences of former students and others
connected to Morehouse to illustrate the narrow, conservative
vision of masculinity molded at a competitive Black institution.
The thirty-two men interviewed unveil a culture that forges
confining ideas of respectable Black manhood within a context of
relentless peer competition and sexual violence, measured against
unattainable archetypes of idealized racial leadership. Grundy
underlines the high costs of making these men-the experiences of
low-income students who navigate class issues at Morehouse, the
widespread homophobia laced throughout the college's notions of
Black male respectability, and the crushingly conformist
expectations of a college that sees itself as making "good" Black
men. As Morehouse's problems continue to pour out into national
newsfeeds, this book contextualizes these issues not as a defect of
Black masculinity, but as a critique of what happens when an
institution services an imagination of what Black men should be, at
the expense of more fully understanding the many ways these young
people see themselves.
The making of a culture of Black male respectability at Morehouse
that underlines conservative notions of gender and class-by a
former Spelman student who was once "Miss Morehouse." How does it
feel to be groomed as the "solution" to a national Black male
"problem"? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable, an in-depth
examination of graduates of Morehouse College, the nation's only
historically Black college for men. While Black male collegians are
often culturally fetishized for "beating the odds," the image of
Black male success that Morehouse assiduously promotes and
celebrates is belied by many of the realities that challenge the
students on this campus. Saida Grundy offers a unique insider
perspective: a graduate of Spelman college and a former "Miss
Morehouse," Grundy crafts an incisive feminist and sociological
account informed by her personal insights and scholarly expertise.
Respectable gathers the experiences of former students and others
connected to Morehouse to illustrate the narrow, conservative
vision of masculinity molded at a competitive Black institution.
The thirty-two men interviewed unveil a culture that forges
confining ideas of respectable Black manhood within a context of
relentless peer competition and sexual violence, measured against
unattainable archetypes of idealized racial leadership. Grundy
underlines the high costs of making these men-the experiences of
low-income students who navigate class issues at Morehouse, the
widespread homophobia laced throughout the college's notions of
Black male respectability, and the crushingly conformist
expectations of a college that sees itself as making "good" Black
men. As Morehouse's problems continue to pour out into national
newsfeeds, this book contextualizes these issues not as a defect of
Black masculinity, but as a critique of what happens when an
institution services an imagination of what Black men should be, at
the expense of more fully understanding the many ways these young
people see themselves.
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