by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In last week’s article, two Black men outlined their journeys through childhood and youth, to manhood. One based in Baltimore (USA), Ta-Nehisi-Coates, and the other in London and Sheffield (UK), Tim Cruickshank. The stories remind us that each of our journeys, like...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
‘Black boys becoming men in a world they didn’t make, but which they have memorably shaped’ I borrow a quote from Michael Eric Dyson, as my title of this week’s article, author of 19 books four of which are New York Times best sellers. The focus of...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Journeys from Black Youth to Black Manhood-Part 2 last week, I outlined my personal journey from a newborn baby shrouded in shame to a child of 11 years of age when my childhood ended. During my 11th year I was confronted with a totally new world that I had to...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Journeys from Black Youth to Black Manhood-Part 1 last week I shared the academically accepted view that childhood, youth, adulthood, manhood is socially constructed and changes in time and context. As individuals we play a role in that construction and maintenance...
by ephraimdivine | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The experience of childhood and youth is framed by the perceptions of what childhood and youth should be, as defined by the culture, wider society, in which the child/youth is located. This means that what childhood/ youth is, varies from culture to culture, wider...
