What is it about?
The study of entrepreneurship is gender biased. It privileges the entrepreneurial behaviour of certain identities such as White middle-class men, and disadvantages others such as women and marginalized men. While recent studies have addressed how women perform entrepreneurship, little is known about how marginalized men perform entrepreneurship. Drawing on qualitative data from Black African immigrant male entrepreneurs who practised entrepreneurship in a predominantly white context, this study found that the men used their relationships with White women to portray a respectable entrepreneurial masculinity. This concept of ‘using’ the identity of White women in exchange for business gain is termed transactional masculinity. It provides a ‘rite of passage’ for these entrepreneurs and grants them a level of social acceptance.
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Why is it important?
This is important as it provides a unique perspective to why identity matters in entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurs who lack normative entrepreneurial identity create an alternative form of entrepreneurial identity
Perspectives
Why are aspiring or successful Black men attracted to White women? This article provides a perspective on this important question in the context of entrepreneurship. Please read and let me know what you think. Thanks
Tayo Korede
University of Central Lancashire
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This page is a summary of: Constructing non-hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinity: the case of Black men doing entrepreneurship in a predominantly white context, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, November 2024, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijge-04-2024-0139.
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