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Token Black girl : a memoir
\"Token Black Girl unpacks the adverse effects of insidious white supremacy in the media--both unconscious and strategic--to tell a personal story about recovery from damaging concepts of perfection, celebrating identity, and demolishing social conditioning\"--Book jacket flap.
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Branding Black womanhood : media citizenship from Black power to Black girl magic
CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women's resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson's mantra. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women's possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas.
Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars.
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Hero Me Not
First introduced in the pages of X-Men , Storm is
probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also
one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with
abilities that allow her to control the weather itself. Yet that
power is almost always deployed in the service of White characters,
and Storm is rarely treated as an authority figure. Hero Me
Not offers an in-depth look at this fascinating yet often
frustrating character through all her manifestations in comics,
animation, and films. Chesya Burke examines the coding of Storm as
racially \"exotic,\" an African woman who nonetheless has bright
white hair and blue eyes and was portrayed onscreen by biracial
actresses Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp. She shows how Storm,
created by White writers and artists, was an amalgam of various
Black stereotypes, from the Mammy and the Jezebel to the Magical
Negro, resulting in a new stereotype she terms the Negro Spiritual
Woman. With chapters focusing on the history, transmedia
representation, and racial politics of Storm, Burke offers a very
personal account of what it means to be a Black female comics fan
searching popular culture for positive images of powerful women who
look like you.
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Branding Black Womanhood
CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of
Black women's resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it
had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market.
Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to
Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that
absorbed Thompson's mantra. While the terminology may have changed
over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have
consistently sought to acknowledge Black women's possession of a
distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas.
Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the
late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and
institutions that have reconfigured Black women's empowerment as a
business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have
constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space
for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars.
eBook
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance
Christina N. Baker's Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and
the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of
representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black
women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about
Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing
meanings of Blackness that draw from their personal experiences and
create new symbolic meaning of Black femaleness within mainstream
culture. Addressing social issues such as the exploitation of Black
women in the entertainment industry, the impact of mass
incarceration on Black women, political activism, and violence,
these films also engage with personal issues as complex as love,
motherhood, and sexual identity. Baker argues that their
counter-hegemonic representations have the potential to transform
the narratives surrounding Black femaleness. At the intersection of
Black feminism and womanism, Baker develops a \"womanist artistic
standpoint\" theory, drawing from the work of Alice Walker, Patricia
Hill Collins, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Analyzing the cultural texts of filmmakers such as Ava DuVernay,
Tanya Hamilton, Kasi Lemmons, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Dee
Rees-and including interviews she conducted with three of the
filmmakers-Baker emphasizes the importance of applying an
intersectional perspective that centers on the shared experiences
of Black women and the role of film as a form of artistic
expression and a tool of social resistance.
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See Me Naked
Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desire, deliberately sought in order to satisfy the self. Putting pleasure first is liberating. During their extraordinary lives, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie enjoyed pleasure as they gave pleasure to both those in their lives and to the public at large. They were Black women who, despite their public profiles, whether through Black society or through the world of entertainment, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure.They left home, undertook careers they loved, and did what they wanted, despite perhaps not meeting the standards for respectability in the interwar era. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of other Black women of the time, who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government, yet still managed to enjoy themselves. Among the voyeurs of Black women was Langston Hughes, whose novel Not Without Laughter was clearly a work of fiction inspired by women he observed in public and knew personally, including Black clubwomen, blues performers, and his mother. How did these complicated women wrest loose from the voyeurs to define their own sense of themselves? At very young ages, they found and celebrated aspects of themselves. Using examples from these women's lives, Green explores their challenges and achievements.
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Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research amongst British women of Caribbean heritage, this volume pursues a broad discussion of beauty within the Black diaspora contexts of the Caribbean, the UK, the United States and Latin America through different historical periods to the present day. With a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, the author reveals how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists, but anyone working in the fields of race, ethnicity and post-colonial thought, feminism and the sociology of the body.
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Scandalize My Name
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theoristsGÇömuch of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this work while approaching the study of black female representation as an opening onto a critical contemplation of the vagaries of black social life. It makes a case for a radical black subject-position that structures and is structured by an intramural social order that revels in the underside of the stereotype and ultimately destabilizes the very notion of GÇ£civil society.GÇ¥ At turns memoir, sociological inquiry, literary analysis, and cultural critique, Scandalize My Name explores topics as varied as serial murder, reality television, Christian evangelism, teenage pregnancy, and the work of Toni Morrison to advance black feminist practice as a mode through which black sociality is both theorized and made material.
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Polygyny
Debra Majeed sheds light on families whose form and function conflict with U.S. civil law. Polygyny-multiple-wife marriage-has steadily emerged as an alternative to the low numbers of marriageable African American men and the high number of female-led households in black America.
This book features the voices of women who welcome polygyny, oppose it, acquiesce to it, or even negotiate power in its practices. Majeed examines the choices available to African American Muslim women who are considering polygyny or who are living it. She calls attention to the ways in which interpretations of Islam's primary sources are authorized or legitimated to regulate the rights of Muslim women. Highlighting the legal, emotional, and communal implications of polygyny, Majeed encourages Muslim communities to develop formal measures that ensure the welfare of women and children who are otherwise not recognized by the state.
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