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Beginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students. Two authors affirm and explore ideas of black womanhood by appealing to Beatrice and Francesca, potentially combining the two figures. Several authors are acutely aware of the purgatorial condition of post-apartheid South Africa, suggesting a long and arduous march to freedom. The image of flight recurs: thrice, madly, into the inferno and once, temporarily, in limbo. These lively responses to La Commedia prompt the question: what kind of literary studies is proper to purgatory, and elicit a tentative reply, urging a re-invention of the discipline of letters.
black feminism --- post-apartheid literary studies --- Chris Mann --- long march to freedom
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Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems-systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies-allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military unit to fight in World War II. Synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies, Drake analyzes black fathers and daughters, the valorization of black criminals, the black entrepreneurial pursuits of Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z, and the denigration and celebration of gay black men: Cornelius Eady, Antoine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With a powerful command of its subjects and a passionate dedication to hope, When We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of seeing and knowing black masculinity-sophisticated in concept and bracingly vivid in telling.
Sociology of minorities --- Masculinity --- Racism --- Black feminism --- Book --- Intersectionality --- African American men --- African Americans --- Social conditions. --- agency. --- black culture. --- black feminism. --- black male crisis. --- black masculinity. --- imagination. --- intersectionality. --- law. --- subjectivity.
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More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. Given the growth of women's and gender studies in the last thirty-plus years, this updated and responsive collection expands upon this transformation of consciousness through multiracial feminist perspectives. The contributors here reflect on transnational issues as diverse as intimate partner violence, the prison industrial complex, social media, inclusive pedagogies, transgender identities, and (post) digital futures. This volume provides scholars, activists, and students with critical tools that can help them decenter whiteness and other power structures while repositioning marginalized groups at the center of analysis.
United States --- Feminism --- African American women. --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Race relations. --- Race question --- United States of America --- Racism --- Blackness --- Black feminism
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Collection of essays about the relationship between Asian American feminists, feminist of color work and transnational feminist scholarship. Subjects of the essays include the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations and cross-racial solidarities.
Politics --- United States --- Feminism --- Asian American women --- Minority women --- Political activity. --- Political activity --- United States of America --- Race --- Theory --- Black feminism --- Book --- Decolonization --- Women's rights
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Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals - but also constitutes - feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective political struggle.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Aesthetics --- Body --- Images of women --- Black feminism --- Book --- Lagos --- Women --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Feminism --- Social conditions.
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Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems-systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies-allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military unit to fight in World War II. Synthesizing black feminist and black masculinity studies, Drake analyzes black fathers and daughters, the valorization of black criminals, the black entrepreneurial pursuits of Marcus Garvey, Berry Gordy, and Jay-Z, and the denigration and celebration of gay black men: Cornelius Eady, Antoine Dodson, and Kehinde Wiley. With a powerful command of its subjects and a passionate dedication to hope, When We Imagine Grace gives us a new way of seeing and knowing black masculinity-sophisticated in concept and bracingly vivid in telling.
African American men --- African Americans --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- agency. --- black culture. --- black feminism. --- black male crisis. --- black masculinity. --- imagination. --- intersectionality. --- law. --- subjectivity.
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"Valerie Mason-John's poetry collection, I Am Still Your Negro, blends spoken word and hashtags with villanelles, sonnets, and haiku to traverse the African Diaspora experience through place, time, and circumstance. Blak Inglis street vernacular, the cadence of enslaved people in the Americas, patois and creole join the enduring spirit voice of Yaata, Supreme Being of the Kona people, to reveal narratives of liberation, entrapment, sexual assault, eating disorders, and rave culture. An emotive critique of colonization's bitter legacy, this collection will draw audiences of the spoken word genre and poetry readers who wish to broaden their knowledge about contemporary social justice issues."--
Social justice --- African-Canadian, spoken word, social justice, environmental justice, Queenie, environmental racism, #metoo, Anita Hill, queer, Black feminism, anorexia, bulimia, Sierra Leone, Windrush Generation, Kona, Yoruba, Thomas Peters, sexual assault, drug culture, decolonization, immigration, social media.
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'Imagining the Mulatta' demonstrates how mixed-race women of African and European descent are harnessed in popular media as a tool to uphold white supremacy and discipline people of African descent to uphold state policies of antiblackness. Uncovering the racialized and gendered paradigms of U.S. and Brazilian media, the text uses case studies of texts from a broad range of popular culture media-film, telenovelas, television shows, music videos, magazines, newspapers, and Olympic ceremonies-to elucidate how the U.S. mulatta and Brazilian mulata figures operates within and across the United States and Brazil as a response to racial anxieties and notions of white superiority.
Sociology of culture --- Social problems --- Mass communications --- Media --- Government policy --- Popular culture --- Racism --- Black feminism --- Book --- United States of America --- Brazil --- Mass media and race relations --- Women in mass media. --- Celebrities in mass media. --- Racially mixed women
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This volume examines the activism and theories of the black feminist lawyer Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy (1916-2000) by focusing specifically on her influence on the Black Power and feminist movements.
African American women lawyers --- Kennedy, Florynce, --- Afro-American women lawyers --- Women lawyers, African American --- Women lawyers --- Kennedy, Flo, --- Kennedy, Florynce R., --- Kennedy, Florynce Rae, --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Kennedy, Florynce --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- African American feminists --- African American radicals --- United States of America --- Racism --- Radical feminism --- Sexism --- Black feminism --- Biography --- Book
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Black women in the United States and across the African diaspora have historically linked national concerns to global ones. This interdisciplinary collection explores the varied ways black women have engaged in internationalism since the late nineteenth century through political agitation, consumption activities and activities and economic pursuits, leisure and religious practices, as well as performance and artistic expression. The essays in this collection employ diverse and innovative methodological approaches and explore new sites of internationalism, including Australia, Germany, and Spain. By highlighting the range and complexity of black women's ideas and activities across time and space, this volume expands the contours of black internationalism in the United States and across the globe.
African American women --- African American women political activists --- Internationalism --- Intellectual cooperation --- International cooperation --- Cosmopolitanism --- International education --- Nationalism --- Afro-American women political activists --- Women political activists, African American --- Women political activists --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Politics and government --- History --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1800-1999 --- International --- Migration --- Black feminism --- Book
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