Hegemonic Masculinity

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From 9/11 to the hastened recession by the housing crash of 2008, the 21st generation has been challenged of their white masculinities. After the World Trade Center was hit in September 9, 2001, a phase of global presence found its way through the local crisis of American masculinity. In response to this global phenomenon, the national transformations shown in the American society are commonly negotiated and understood. The challenges that build a barrier to recover from previous historical periods have revealed the changes in white masculinity, which has become a resultant of hegemonic masculinity in the United States. Though the masculinity is sex-linked in this data, the conceptualization of social positions often fluctuates and intertwines

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