Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood (eBook, ePUB)

Media, Literature and Theory
Redaktion: Gammage, Marquita M.; Alameen-Shavers, Antwanisha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the typecasting of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women's self-perceptions. It details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how these women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions. The book highlights the role of racist ideas in the reproduction and promotion of stereotypes of Black femaleness in media, literature, artificial intelligence and the perceptions of the general public. Contributors in this collection identify the racist and sexist ideologies behind the misperceptions of Black womanhood and illuminate twenty-first-century stereotypical treatment of Black women such as Michelle Obama and Serena Williams, and explore topics such as comedic expressions of Black motherhood, representations of Black women in television dramas and literature, and identity reclamation and self-determination. "Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" establishes the criteria with which to examine the role of stereotypes in the lives of Black women and, more specifically, its impact on their social and psychological well-being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783089390
• Artikelnr.: 56818985

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marquita M. Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Marquita
Gammage; Part I: Historical Conceptualizations; Historical Miseducation on
Black Womanhood, Donnetrice Allison; Part II: Motherhood and Mother-Right
under Question; The Virility of the Haitian Womb: The Biggest Threat to the
Dominican Right, Daly Guilamo; "Black Women Are Genius!": The Image of
Celebrated Black Motherhood in Stand-Up Comedy?, Antwanisha
Alameen-Shavers; Self-Perceptions and Strategies of Self-Determination
among Black Women Student Parents on Campus, Sureshi M. Jayawardene and
Serie McDougal III; Part III: Media, Literature and Public Perceptions of
Black Womanhood; Exploring Contemporary Stereotypes of Black Womanhood in
Claudia Rankine's 'Citizen: An American Lyric', Raquel Kennon; Ladyhood in
Distress: Black Politics in Nicole Sconiers's 'Escape from Beckyville',
Jalondra A. Davis; Representing the Black Woman as Immoral and Abandoning
the Black Family: A Cultural Analysis of 21st Century Television Dramas
Starring Black Women, Marquita Gammage; Part IV: Politics and Public
Implications; Sapphires Gone Wild: The Politics of Black Women's
Respectability in the Age of the Ratchet, De Anna J. Reese and Delia C.
Gillis; Michelle Obama Laughs: Political Meme Warfare and the Regurgitation
of the Mythological Black Woman, Kiedra Taylor; Part V: Advocacy, Activism
and Affirmation of Black Womanhood; Kawaida Womanism as an Interpretative
Framework for Understanding Africana Womanhood: Analyzing African American
Women's Self-Perceptions, Marquita Gammage; List of Contributors; Index.