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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Black womanhood"”.
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Performing radical black womanhood: Black women artists as critical public pedagogues
… to explore the pedagogical experiences of Black women artists and performers from Detroit, Michigan, using qualitative methodological components from autoethnography, ethnography, phenomenology, and art-based inquiry. The researcher used criterion sampling in order to select six of the …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… explores the practices and possibilities of Black women’s identity performances on social media. Despite claims that the United States is now “post-racial,” in recent years there have been several examples of negative perceptions and hostile receptions to Black women’s discourse and literacy …
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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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The discursive scaling of Black womanhood: Experiences of African immigrant women in the African diaspora
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Representations of post-apartheid black womanhood in the novels of Angela Makholwa and Kopano Matlwa
… examines representations of post-apartheid Black womanhood in the selected novels of South African authors, Kopano Matlwa (2006 & 2016) and Angela Makholwa (2017/2018) by placing them within the context of the changes in South Africa from the time of apartheid to the present. This study …
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"""I thought of you in her place"": representations of black womanhood in American literary realism, 1868-1900"
… postbellum texts that put African American womanhood at the heart of their narratives, both as an abstract symbol of race and gender and as embodied through female characters. I focus on realist texts that are specifically concerned with the representation of female subjectivity and set them …
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Black Girl Black Girl Holla and Let Em’ Hear You: An Autoethnographic Exploration of My Experiences From Black Girlhood to Black Womanhood
… to adulthood, as seen through the eyes of a Black girl growing up to become a Black woman. Specifically, this study included an examination of 10 critical incidents with a combination of the past 7 years of my life that explain the negative and positive interactions that shaped my experiences …
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Possessing the secret of black womanhood : reading African women in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, and Warrior Marks
Speaking for or about others has featured consistently in current feminist debates as it is becoming clear that the assumed homogeneity of women within social groups is not realistic. It has become clear that difference can no longer be analysed in terms of race, gender and sexuality alone. Other …
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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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Hull
… un-shakable hyper corporeality of a body both Black and woman, and the social and spiritual liminality of Black womanhood. This collection is centered around a contemporary Black, queer, femme voice, and moves beyond the deeply familiar, beyond any implied monolith of definitive Blackness. …
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As above, so between: configuring Miss Lala as a mixed race subject
… on three main aspects of Lala’s identity: her black womanhood, her circus performances, and her multiraciality. Fei contends that to configure Lala as a mixed race figure allows for all of the possible ways she might have identified to emerge as it is dexterous and adjustable by nature. This …
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Fighting An Uphill Battle: Black Undergraduate Women Navigating Higher Education While Acknowledging and Challenging Media Portrayals of Black Women
… shows often become barriers that limit Black women in higher education, influencing the ways in which they experience college campuses, including how they are treated by faculty and peers and how they interact with others in these spaces. This study examined the perspectives of Black …
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Motherwit through the Lives of Alberta King, Berdis Baldwin, and Louise Little
… a more accurate and holistic understanding of Black American revolutionary history. 2) Present and analyze the dehumanization of Black American women in its varying forms including erasure, misrecognition, and misrepresentation. 3) Analyze and contribute to Black American women’s resistance to …
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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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The Conceptualization of Gender and Race in Rap Music: Its Impact on the Political Engagement of Black Women
… rap music and the political engagement of Black women, using theories of Black feminist thought: Intersectionality and hip-hop feminism. Rather than seeking a definitive or binary conclusion, the research examines the complexity of how rap influences cultural representation, resistance, and …
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Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary
… critique their importance to constructions of Black womanhood. Utilizing close readings of Black women’s culinary practices in popular televisual kitchens and archival analysis of USDA domestic reforms, the project locates sites that challenge how we oversimplify soul food as a Black cultural …
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Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
… familial relationships between system-impacted Black women, mapping and uncovering the ways in which incarceration and practices of punishment impact, shape, hurt, and displace Black femme lineages. Through a qualitative lens and a specific focus on the current social and political landscape of …
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“I See Things Differently, and I'm Willing to Take the Risk”: The Makings of A Womanist Scholar-Activist, Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner
… shows how Ladner’s rearing in a majority Black community and matriculation through an historically Black college (HBCU) as a student activist informed her use of scholarship in the struggle for freedom. A study of Joyce Ladner’s life and career trajectory is a way to locate her in a Black …
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… racial ideologies that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this served to exclude black women from the designation of 'woman' and therefore from the Women's Prison Reform Movement. I also argue that overt …
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