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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Black Bodies"”.
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Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole
… through which to read Cole’s representations of black bodies as they move across space. By presenting the ‘black body’, rather than ‘black man’, as the preferred metonym for black people, Cole’s work, which I argue can be read as peculiar travel narratives, foregrounds the bodily dimension of …
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
… reductionist and hypersexualized portrayals of Black bodies, especially those of Black women. This problem is rooted in colonialism, racialized misogyny, and the commodification of Black bodies for the entertainment and consumption of dominant cultures. Through exploring scopophilia and …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …
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Bending Family Friendly into Fear: Nostalgia, Minstrelsy and Horror in Bendy and the Ink Machine
… game Bendy and the Ink Machine turns animated bodies (cartoons) into bodies the player fears. In this game family friendly cartoon characters are transformed into figures of fear. Furthermore, Bendy and the Ink Machine does this by making the bending of Black bodies visible through what I call …
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Race under dictatorship: the political articulation of blackness in the Dominican Republic and Brazil
… literary and journalistic representations of blackness under the authoritarian regimes of Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) in the Dominican Republic and the Ditadura Militar (1964-85) in Brazil. I argue that these discursive representations offer important insights into how dictatorships manipulated …
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Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis
… we believe we are white, but we clearly inhabit black bodies. These attitudes permeate Dominican society from the highest echelons of power to the everyday experiences of Dominicans on the street. The notion that Dominicans are racist is widespread among Latinos and African-Americans as well. …
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The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas
… moves within the local structures, I show how Black subjects constantly navigate a self-representation that is malleable and constantly shifting that both re-inscribes and resists the power schema. In the first chapter I demonstrate how the Autobiografía de un esclavo (1836) of Juan Francisco …
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Race, public transit, and automobility in World War II Detroit
… strong associations of streetcars and buses with black bodies worked against efforts to create long-term alternatives to private car use. Understanding the significance of World War II in shaping Americans’ mobility requires exploration of wartime transformations in everyday travel, as well as how …
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(Re)vivendo amores pretos: mapeamento dos afetos nas danças d’quebradas contemporâneas
This research refers to the study of black affective processes in the dramaturgical and methodological constructions of some dissident black artists from São Paulo and Salvador, in dialogue with the productions of the author of this writing. The understanding that affection, love and identity are …
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Apartheid and resistance in the political economy of gentrification: The dialectics of black working-class struggles in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970-2015
… racial class struggle defined primarily through black working class collective resistance to urban reorganization. Second, this project argues that neoliberalization and subsequent gentrification in Atlanta served as a structural form of anti-poor black pogrom—the planned destruction or removal …
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Playing with Anger: Lessons from Contemporary Black Feminist Dramas
… a society that often directs its anger toward Black bodies while dismissing the anger of those connected to them, the plays of 21st-century Black women serve as windows into the enduring cultural imprints of injustice enacted against Black people—both globally and, in particular, within the …
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Revision of the Genus Hylaeus Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) in Canada
… be readily recognized by the relatively hairless black bodies with yellow maculations (markings) on the face and thorax, including the legs. However, species-level identification is difficult due to the maculations of many species being highly variable with respect to shape and size, often …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… resistance within the controlling images of Black bodies and people of color on television.</p>
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“The Wilderness Within”: African Diasporic Religion in New Granada, 1690-1790
… it argues for the constitutive role of black mobility, space, and state institutions in their creation and circulation. Africans and their descendants—whether black or of mixed African, indigenous, and European heritages—had a deep engagement with Catholicism and its material culture in …
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An unblinking gaze: Readerly response-ability and racial reconstructions in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Beloved'
… a transformation of current representations of black and white culture in her critical study, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, in which Morrison examines how black culture has been (mis)represented and (mis)perceived by white Western culture and discourse. She argues …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… project is to theorize and understand Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony, that is, within the context of a white racist anti-Black world. I theorize the Black body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental signified or as that which …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… resistance within the controlling images of Black bodies and people of color on television. Their poetry extended the Black radical poetic tradition, that, in-large part began with the Harlem Renaissance, and continued through jazz poetry, the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop, and poetry slams. …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… engage with the grief of abject and ungrievable bodies — from the censored falling body to the perceived Muslim ‘terrorist’ Other to brutalised black bodies — and what are the implications of this engagement? How do the texts depart from a now paradigmatic ‘trauma’ aesthetic to aestheticise loss …
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Memories of race: Representations of mixed race people in girls' comic magazines in post-occupation Japan
… post-occupation years, the overrepresentation of Black-Japanese occupation babies in girls' comic magazines inadvertently contributed to foisting the blame of the former Western Occupation onto Black bodies and to reconstructing the image of the West. Subsequently, during the 1960s, the whiteness …
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21st century Black beauty resistance: Collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility in Black women’s writing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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