ABSTRACT
Ideological images have as one of their functions the production of a structure that connects the various parts of the way we think about black males. For this reason, it is possible analytically to conceive the studies of black males as sharing an intersection of a central interlocking theme. The interlocking theme is unique to black males in relative comparative terms to other groups like white males, white females, and black females. What differs is the theme of black male pathology that implies black males are disreputable. We could possibly consider the ideology of the disreputable black male from a genetic, functional, or empirical perspective. Nevertheless, on all of these dimensions we see that the purpose of the ideology of the disreputable black male is his domination. In addition, we must note that it would not be possible to manage the domination of black men without requiring that the larger proportion of them internalize the ideology. It is not, then, capture, slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, civil rights discrimination, labor market discrimination, the prison industrial complex, or the other systems-past, present, and future-that is the root cause of black male servitude; it is gender and race hierarchy domination and its technologies of servitude that harms blacks. As we will see, this system has potential to harm many classes of whites too.
