LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT.

This thesis explores the way in which Black women digital content creators with natural hair utilize the private sphere -- the homespace-- as a means of claiming space on the internet to, educate, encourage, and inspire Black women with natural hair. Using a womanist lens, I examine five YouTube videos, as rhetorical artifacts, that demonstrate the communicative process of testifying. I argue that the combination of the homespace and testifying produces a transformative healing power that has mobilized Black women throughout the diaspora to wear their hair natural--otherwise known as the Contemporary Natural Hair Movement.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Tate, Candis

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59328

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/59328