| Author | : Kimberly Wallace-Sanders |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : African American women |
| ISBN | : 9780472067077 |
Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination
Skin Deep
| Author | : Marita Golden |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2011-05-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0307794784 |
Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture.
Mythologizing Black Women
| Author | : Brittany C. Slatton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2015-11-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317255712 |
In this book Brittany C. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal contemporary prejudices about relationship partners. In doing so she thoroughly refutes the popular ideology of a post-racial America. Slatton examines the 'deep frame' of white men found in opinions and emotional reactions to black women and their body types, personalities, behaviours, and styles of speech. Their internet responses to questionnaires shows how they treat as common sense radicalised, gendered, and classed versions of black women. Mythologizing Black Women argues that the internet acts as a backstage setting, allowing white men to anonymously express raw feelings about race and sexuality without the fear of reprimand.
Color, Hair, and Bone
| Author | : Linden Lewis |
| Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780838756683 |
These essays explore various critical dimensions of race from a sociological, anthropological, and literary perspective. They engage with history, either textually, materially, or with respect to identity, in an effort to demonstrate that these discourses
Spirit Deep
| Author | : Tisha M. Brooks |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2023-03-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813948940 |
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince. Brooks hereby challenges the divides between religious and literary studies, and between coerced and "free" passages within travel writing studies to reveal meaningful new connections in Black women’s writings. Bringing together both sacred and secular texts, Spirit Deep uncovers an enduring spiritual legacy of movement and power that Black women have claimed for themselves in opposition to the single story of the Black (female) body as captive, monstrous, and strange. Spirit Deep thus addresses the marginalization of Black women from larger conversations about travel writing, demonstrating the continuing impact of their spirituality and movements in our present world.
Venus in the Dark
| Author | : Janell Hobson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1135870969 |
Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus." In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, and museums and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women's sexuality-from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos-continues to refer back to this persistent icon. This book analyzes the history of critical and artistic responses to this iconography by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.
Shadow Bodies
| Author | : Julia S. Jordan-Zachery |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2017-10-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0813593417 |
What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies focuses on the positionality of the Black woman’s body, which serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and cultural representations. It does so by asking: How do discursive practices, both speech and silences, support and maintain hegemonic understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black women as shadow bodies, unseen and unremarked upon? Grounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically.
