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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"race and sexuality"”.
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The Black lesbian experience: the intertwining of race and sexuality
… This study examined the intertwining of race and sexuality in the lives of Black lesbians. Black lesbians face the experiences of race, sexual orientation, and gender oppression in American society. They also experience oppression within their family and the Black community. Participants …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
… or even bad weather—in response to racist and misogynist gaslighting. Drawing on phenomenology, affect theory, and queer studies, I argue that these moments of interspecies comparison enable characters to reclaim the truth content of their perceptions by new means. I contextualize how this …
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Disrupted constructions: Joe Christmas's formation of race and sexuality in Light in August
… women for threatening his conception of his sexuality by coercing him into an intimate relationship. At many points throughout the novel, Christmas associates himself with the black race and endures all of the ridicule that comes with it just to believe that he knows a little bit about his …
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Representations of gender,race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005
… study was to explore representations of gender, race and sexuality in a select group of South African magazines - Men's Health, FHM, Blink, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady - between 2003 and 2005. From a feminist poststructuralist perspective, it was argued that these magazines presented …
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Straighten up and breed White: The representation of race and sexuality in films about reproductive technologies
… monstrous, specifically as it enters our understanding of reproductive technologies, and is represented through a series of films, beginning in the 1930s. In looking at filmic representations of reproductive technologies, this study indicates how the use of, and the results from, those …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
… to examine the relationship between historical and contemporary visual representations of Jamaica and identifies the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the imperial context in Britain. The thesis …
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Living in the Margins of Life: The Intersectionality of Identity, Race, and Sexuality in the Selected Works of Audre Lorde
… In Lorde’s poetry, she addresses those who stand at the margins of society. Lorde states that poetry is a “vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, …
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Racialised lesbian spaces : a Mancunian ethnography
This thesis seeks to understand the relationship between sexuality, ‘race’ and space within the context of urban night-time leisure spaces for women. It is informed by and draws on different fields: sexual geographies, critical ‘race’ scholarship, feminist and queer theories, studies on whiteness, …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
In the novellas Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen uses the often maligned detail to explore issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
"The Erotics of Race Suicide" examines the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive Era American literature in light of a widely proclaimed socio-political concept of the time: “race suicide.” Coined by the sociologist Edward Ross, the term “race suicide” nominates a nativist fear over the …
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Black LGBTQ+ Students’ Perceptions of Belonging: Resource Centers, Relationships, and Intersectionality on College Campuses
… research. Kikimethodology focuses on the lives and perspectives of Black Queer and Transgender college students. This dissertation shows how these collegians navigate identity politics, resource centers, and seek out belonging on their campus. The findings hone in on four broader themes: (a) …
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The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes
… more realistically represents a warrior woman, and a lizard body that is hard to gender stereotype using human gender role attitudes. Participants were given a pretest and posttest measure that checked their gender role attitudes and were allowed to play the game with no restrictions on the …
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
… literary works of Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D. share an interest in the crossovers between human, ideological, and cultural reproduction during the interwar years. However, an extended study on their contrasting views about life and art in the aftermath of World War One is yet to …
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The Spaces Between Us: A Queer<=>Intersectional Analysis of the Narratives of Black Gay International Students
… of international students along the lines of race and ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and nationality are virtually unknown. This study utilizes experience-centered narrative inquiry to explore the experiences of Black gay international students, and how they are racialized and sexualized in …
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(Re)covering Women: The State, Morality, and Cultural Discourses of Sex -Work in Cuba
… approach to societal change prioritized class and subsumed other categories of difference. Through an ethnographic analysis of discourses and practices surrounding the body and sex-work, I explore how categories of difference (race, gender, sexuality), considered to be the effects of capital by …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… women, who are rarely considered as a group and are more typically studied with “rough South” male writers, which would suggest that few women have contributed their own gendered experience to discussions of class, race, and sexuality vis-à-vis Southern poverty. Correcting this assumption, I …
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Stereo/Types: Canadian Women DJs Sound Off
… increased access to cheap or free digital music and software, inexpensive and user-friendly hardware (such as controllers), and the networking and promotional opportunities afforded by the Internet. Moreover, emergent local, regional, national, and international initiatives to advance women in DJ …
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Nesting in English fields : bird narratives and the re-imagining of post-war Britain
… of the more-than-human world in both familiar and unfamiliar texts can shed new light on a period of British history that was characterised by radical social change. The texts are examined using insights from historical contextualisation, ecocriticism and animal studies. The period is known as …
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