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Representations of Black Women in the Media

Author : Marquita Marie Gammage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317370481
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Black Women in the Media written by Marquita Marie Gammage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide with the dignity of mother and wife. This portrayal continues to reinforce negative stereotypes of Black women in the media today. This book highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the public. It argues that media such as rap music videos, television dramas, reality television shows, and newscasts create and affect expectations of Black women. Exploring the role that racism, misogyny and media play in the representation of Black womanhood, it provides a foundation for challenging contemporary media’s portrayal of Black women.

Imagining Black Womanhood

Author : Stephanie D. Sears
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143843328X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Black Womanhood written by Stephanie D. Sears and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Area.

Branding Black Womanhood

Author : Timeka N. Tounsel
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978829906
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Branding Black Womanhood written by Timeka N. Tounsel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Remaking Black Power

Author : Ashley D. Farmer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634384
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Remaking Black Power written by Ashley D. Farmer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

Sister Citizen

Author : Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300165412
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Sister Citizen written by Melissa V. Harris-Perry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div

Colored No More

Author : Treva B. Lindsey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099575
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Colored No More written by Treva B. Lindsey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban center. Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself. Upward mobility to equal citizenship for African American women encompassed challenging racial, gender, class, and sexuality status quos. Lindsey maps the intersection of these challenges and their place at the core of New Negro womanhood.

The Black Female Body

Author : Deborah Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566399289
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Black Female Body written by Deborah Willis and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases an array of both familiar and unknown photographic works of black women, citing the cultural and sociological histories of the past 300 years reflected in them, from images of South African studies to the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement.

Representations of Black Womanhood on Television

Author : Shauntae Brown White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592678
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Black Womanhood on Television written by Shauntae Brown White and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Mara Brock Akil: Representations of Black Womanhood on Television examines the body of work of Mara Brock Akil, the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is__. The contributions to this volume are theoretically anchored in Patricia Hill Collin’s Black Feminist Thought, with a focus on how Brock Akil’s shows intentionally address Black humanity and specifically provide context for Black women’s lived experiences and empathy for Black womanhood by featuring woman-centered characters with flaws, strength, and complexity. Shauntae Brown White and Kandace L. Harris have compiled a volume that analyzes themes that define Black womanhood and examines audience reception of and social media interaction with Brock Akil’s work.

Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman

Author : Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592136699
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman written by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the restrictive myth of the strong black woman through interviews, revealing the emotional and physical toll this "performance" can have.

Notable Black American Women

Author : Jessie Carney Smith
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780810391772
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Notable Black American Women written by Jessie Carney Smith and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1992 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life

Author : Bert James Loewenberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038241
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life by : Bert James Loewenberg

Download or read book Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life written by Bert James Loewenberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Women, Black Love

Author : Dianne M. Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580058087
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Black Women, Black Love written by Dianne M. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black companionship.According to the 2010 US census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis.Dianne Stewart begins in the colonial era, when slave owners denied Blacks the right to marry, divided families, and, in many cases, raped enslaved women and girls. Later, during Reconstruction and the ensuing decades, violence split up couples again as millions embarked on the Great Migration north, where the welfare system mandated that women remain single in order to receive government support. And no institution has forbidden Black love as effectively as the prison-industrial complex, which removes Black men en masse from the pool of marriageable partners.Prodigiously researched and deeply felt, Black Women, Black Love reveals how white supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America, and it proposes strategies for dismantling the structural forces that have plagued Black love and marriage for centuries.

Black Women's Mental Health

Author : Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438465815
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Black Women's Mental Health written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creates a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

Ain't I a Woman

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588614
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Ain't I a Woman written by bell hooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

Vanguard

Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541618602
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Vanguard written by Martha S. Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Author : Mia E. Bay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620928
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women written by Mia E. Bay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.

The Strong Black Woman

Author : Marita Golden
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642506842
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Strong Black Woman written by Marita Golden and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Health Crisis Among Black Women Generated from Systemic Racism “Marita Golden’s The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’” ―Karen Arrington, coach, mentor, philanthropist, and author of NAACP Image Award-winning Your Next Level Life Sarton Women’s Book Award #1 New Release in Reference Meet Black women who have learned through hard lessons the importance of self-care and how to break through the cultural and family resistance to seeking therapy and professional mental health care. The Strong Black Woman Syndrome. For generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and overcomes any problem, any obstacle. The syndrome calls on Black women to be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives―never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their pain. Hidden mental health crisis of anxiety and depression. To be a Black woman in America is to know you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, your value is consistently questioned, and even being “twice as good” is often not good enough. Consequently, Black women disproportionately experience anxiety and depression. Studies now conclusively connect racism and mental health―and physical health. Take care of your emotional health. You deserve to be emotionally healthy for yourself and those you love. More and more young Black women are re-examining the Strong Black Woman syndrome and engaging in self-care practices that change their lives. Hear stories of Black women who: Asked for help Built lives that offer healing Learned to accept healing If you have read The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health, The Racial Healing Handbook, or Black Fatigue, The Strong Black Woman is your next read.