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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"black female body"”.
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Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging
… this report I address how my identification as a Black American female shapes my day-to-day interactions with Albanian informants, and how these encounters can be used to probe representations of what I term “Albanianess”. In doing so, I reveal the ways in which the ethnographic encounter allows …
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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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Re-visioning Katrina: Exploring Gender in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans
… must interrogate the cultural conflation of the black female body and the city's legacy to explore what it means and how it situates real black women in social, cultural, and physical landscapes. Using a hybrid theoretical framework informed by Black feminist theory, ecocriticism, critical race …
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Dorothy West's Re-imagining of the Migration Narrative
… Dorothy West breaks new ground by documenting a Black female migrant's sojourn from South to North in an era in which such narratives were virtually non-existent. West seemingly rejects both a separation between North and South as well any sentiment of condemning the North or South in totality. …
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Lucy Negro, Redux
… the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Research for the collection began with the discovery in early 2012 of a connection between the historical Elizabethan figure Black Luce--a …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… the representation and lived experience of Black women who comprise the hip hop generation, or the post-civil rights generation for persons of color born between 1965-1984 (Kitwana, 2002, p. xiii). The researcher employs a three-part research design, which includes autoethnography, a series …
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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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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba
… interpretation of cultural discourses about the body found in literature, visual narratives and archival sources throughout 19th century in Spanish colonial Havana. These discourses show a pressing concern with the “manners” of bodies, the ways they moved, how they occupied space, and how they …
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The burden of the body : selfhood and representation in the works of Dionne Brand
… full expression through the performances of its body. The self's ability to determine its corporeal performances, however, is regulated by social forces which 'read' bodies according to hierarchies of difference. This circumscription of performativity is particularly acute for Brand's Black …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… I examine past and present representations of black women in South African public and private domains. Having been confronted with monuments erected to celebrate British colonialism and Afrikaner nationalism, I focus on the paucity of iconic black women in history and mythology. I perform …
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Transgressngroove: an exploration of black girlhood, the body, and education
Blackgirls have recently begun to receive focused attention in the discipline of education.Usually, we are compared to our White female or Black male counterparts and/or located within frameworks designed without our bodies and realities considered. Failure to recognize the simultaneity of race and …
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Deviancy and Disorder – The Visual Legacy of the Hottentot Venus in the Novels of Toni Morrison
… aesthetic,’ Fred Moten’s consideration of the black radical tradition, and Roland Barthes’ contemplation on the function of photography, this research suggests that a difference needs to be drawn between the image of ‘race’ and that of the ‘racial image’ within cultural production and …
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Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university
… critical pedagogic theories and activism from a black feminist perspective. The central argument is that education is not only confined to the formal classroom but also takes place in the most unlikely places outside the classroom. This work is premised on the educational philosophies of …
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Beyond the "Baartman Trope": representations of black women's bodies from early South African proto-nationalisms to postapartheid nationalisms
… propagate many of the same stereotypes about black women’s sexuality first entrenched through colonial representations. More specifically, I argue that these tropes are repeatedly invoked through an uncritical deployment of what I term the “Baartman trope”. With this term, I aim to signal the …
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Disruptive bodies and peripheral politics: How naked protests disrupt the patriarchal public sphere
On 4 October 2016, three black female students at the University of Witwatersrand (hereafter Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa staged a naked protest to call for a ceasefire during the peak of the #FeesMustFall (FMF) protests. The FMF movement emerged in late 2015 as a student revolt against …