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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Black Woman"”.
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Identity of a Single Black Woman
… concerning the plight of single black women the decreasing number of marriages in the black community. This paper will analyze the network sitcom <em>Girlfriends</em> focusing on how mediated images are performed and presented as they relate to single black women. Specifically, …
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Strong Black Woman Archetype in Organizational Life
Black women face multiple jeopardies—racism, sexism, classism—as they navigate American society (King, 1988). With more Black families economically depending on Black women, and as their presence within the U.S. workforce continues to increase, it is vital that we better understand their …
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Explicit Content: Hip Hop, Feminism, and the Black Woman
… work uses grounded theory and the framework of Black feminist thought to analyze the messages in contemporary hip hop music. Grounded theory was chosen to create an unbiased setting that allowed the themes to emerge rather than looking for specific occurrences. The beginning sections focus on …
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The Career Goal-Setting Processes of Black Woman Engineering Majors
… of employment. Extant literature affirms that Black women encounter various challenges when pursuing STEM careers. More specifically, the research on Black women in engineering focuses primarily on their experiences in academia and does not include their experiences as undergraduates …
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The shadow of a nation : remembering the Black woman in the nomadic picture
Francois Malepart de Beaucourt (1740-1794), an artist of Parisian and French-Canadian heritage, allegedly painted Portrait of a Negro Slave in 1786. Also known as La Negresse, or The Negress, the portrait has since become one of Canada's most famous historical paintings. After two centuries, it …
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"The ""strong black woman"": an intersectional analysis of African American women's double bind"
… American women’s endorsement of the ‘Strong Black Woman’ (SBW) race-gender ideology has received recent attention given its association with harmful health outcomes. However, the ideology’s function in the lives of African American women has been under-explored. This study investigated the …
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“For You, I Will”: The Strong Black Woman Schema and Black Women’s Romantic Relationships
Much of the current research regarding Black women’s romantic relationships focusses on maladaptive relational dynamics that Black women experience, which further contributes to negative stereotyping of Black women. In this study, I used a phenomenological qualitative framework, through a …
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Stitched from the Soul: An Auto/biographical Inquiry Into one Black Woman Administrator's Voice and Vision
… inquiry into my voice and vision as a Black woman administrator. I explore the lives of four generations of Black women in my family. Each of these women -- Hattie C. Wilcher (my great grandmother), Connie W. Duggan (my mother), Danielle R. Lowe (my daughter), and I -- have studied …
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The Unrapeable Black Woman: Understanding The Plight Of The Black Rape Complainant In Contemporary South Africa
… This issue is particularly troubling for Black women, as the colonial-generated perception of their bodies portrays sexual violence as an expected outcome of their ordinary sexual behaviours, categorising them as supposedly immune to rape. Black women are consequently displaced as victims …
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Black woman, you are on your own : images of black women in Staffrider short stories, 1978-1982
This dissertation examines the dominant images of Black women presented in the first five years of Staffrider magazine. It limits itself mainly to the analysis of short stories written in the English language. Since most of the contributors were men, many of the stories analysed here are by male …
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Finishing my sentence: A critical autobiography of a Black woman who has been the principal and the prisoner
… autobiography explores how my experiences as a Black woman born and raised inDetroit profoundly shaped my worldview, leadership style, and professional decisions as a school principal. Anchored in the theoretical framework of critical race feminism, this study examines the intersections of race, …
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The Mbokodofication of Black Women: An Autoethnographic Study of Post Dramatic Stress and the ‘Strong Black Woman' Trope
… performance discourse the mbokodofication of Black women – that is, the production of the ‘Strong Black Woman' trope, specifically in the South African context. To this end, the study traces the genealogy of the tropes of Black womanhood that have emerged throughout the history of the South …
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Sexuality and cultural heritage at odds: I Fuck What I Like, an ode to the young queer black woman in South Africa
… in line with complicating and archiving queer black women's narratives in the South African performance and literary canon. As a strategy of social reform, I aim to complicate what I argue to be an insistent narrative of queer black womanhood as emblematic of abjection by exploring the concept …
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“You have never been a Black woman in this job” How Black women educators experience and respond to gendered racism in Chicago’s schools
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Strong Black Womanhood, Stress, and Coping: A Quantitative Investigation of a Culturally Encapsulated Phenomenon
… study was to examine the influence of Strong Black Woman attitudes on how African American women perceive and cope with stress. The study included 100 Black female faculty, staff, and students from five universities in the eastern region of the United States including a large, public, research …
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Do Black men really love Black women? : A qualitative study on how mass media shape Black men's perception of Black women for long-term romantic relationship -- or not
When confronted with the presence of a Black man in relationship with a non-Black woman whether in media messages or real life, more often than not Black women are also met with feelings of rejection and inadequacy. It is a form of rejection experienced by Black women that is often discussed behind …
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Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
Representations of black female bodies in western art defy easy categorization. Situated as "other" within colonial discourse, the represented black female body has historically undergone a double fetishization on the basis of a perceived sexual and racial lack. Dorothy Stevens' Coloured Nude …
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Redefining the Black superwoman: Racial and gender microaggressions at predominantly white institutions
… through self-reflection of the use of the Strong Black Woman and Black Superwoman archetypes. This dissertation also uses focus groups to obtain a representative of voices of Black women’s experiences at a large Midwestern predominantly white institution. The work explores the relevance of racial …
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The Lived Experience of the African American Pregnancy that Ends in Preterm Birth
… in preterm birth. Two Themes emerged: "Strong Black Woman Ideal" and "Feeling Trapped." </p><p> Awareness regarding the need to "peel back" layers of generational factors which influence stress on and the types of stressors specific to African American women were noted. While it is safe to say …
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