Getting angry to get ahead: Black college men, emotional performance, and encouraging respectable masculinity

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 275-292

  Jackson, Brandon A ^a   Harvey Wingfield, Adia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anger; black men; college; emotions; masculinity; students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900393248     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/symb.63     Document Type: Article

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