ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews health conceptualizations, research, and interventions related to White boys and men. It describes the development of a contextually rich understanding of White boys’ and men’s health and their generally privileged health disparities. The chapter analyses assumptions underlying definitions of health and health disparities in the literature that may have discouraged a culturally specific analysis of European American men’s health. It also reviews the very few culturally explicit health programs and interventions addressing European American boys’ or men’s health. The chapter explores the limited theoretical and empirical work addressing European American boys and men as racialized and gendered subjects. Culturally specific descriptions and explanations of the health of European American boys and men as a group themselves are rare. Thus, the ways in which European American men learn, work, and are socialized and controlled by the state likely affect their health, including their health beliefs, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization.
