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Articles 1 - 10 of 10
Full-Text Articles in Ethnomusicology
Self-Realization In A Restricted World: Janie's Early Discovery In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Delisa D. Hawkes
Self-Realization In A Restricted World: Janie's Early Discovery In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Delisa D. Hawkes
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Exploring The Efficacy Of "Crooked Sticks" : Diasporan Resistance And Discursive Ambivalence In Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, Amy Schmidt
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents, Regennia N. Williams
Table Of Contents, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Pentecostalism In An African Context, Michael L. Zadell
Pentecostalism In An African Context, Michael L. Zadell
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
One School Year With Zora Neale Hurston: A September - June Timeline Unit For K - 8 Schools, Lana J. Miller
One School Year With Zora Neale Hurston: A September - June Timeline Unit For K - 8 Schools, Lana J. Miller
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
New Perspectives On Religion, Race, And Culture, Regennia N. Williams
New Perspectives On Religion, Race, And Culture, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
From The Editor-In-Chief: A Celebration Of American Arts And Letters, Regennia N. Williams
From The Editor-In-Chief: A Celebration Of American Arts And Letters, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Contemporary Conversations On Cross-Cultural Exchange, Jenni L. Shelton
Contemporary Conversations On Cross-Cultural Exchange, Jenni L. Shelton
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Antonio T. De Nicolás: Poet Of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple
Antonio T. De Nicolás: Poet Of Eternal Return, Christopher Key Chapple
Research Resources
This book includes essays in honor of Professor Antonio de Nicolas.
Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching As A Performance Of Embodied Resistance In Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Treviene A. Harris
Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching As A Performance Of Embodied Resistance In Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Treviene A. Harris
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines how skin bleaching can be understood within the cultural context of Jamaican dancehall. I argue that as a cultural practice, skin bleaching can be viewed as a critique of the concomitant structural inequalities precipitated by colorism, which is a by-product of racism. In proposing skin bleaching as a queer performance of color, I attempt to illustrate the manner in which the lightening of the skin exposes the instability of racism and colorism as socially constructed, discursive regimes. If race and skin color are biological and embodied facts dictated by social reality, then bodies, which are racially marked …