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Full-Text Articles in Africana Studies
The Imposition Of White Beauty Standards On Black Women, Sabrina E. Robinette
The Imposition Of White Beauty Standards On Black Women, Sabrina E. Robinette
Student Publications
This paper explores the impact of racist beauty ideals on black women through a survey of personal testimonies and an examination of media’s role in perpetrating white beauty. Without sufficient black representation in media, Western beauty standards have excluded black women from defining beauty, which inflicts psychological, physical, and even economic harm on women of color. Companies make profits off of black women’s insecurity from products such as skin lightening cream, chemical straighteners, and hair dye, all of which are an economic burden on black women at best and are life-threatening at worst. Often, black women are forced to turn …
Inheritances Of Injustice/Transference Of Freedom: An Intimate Project On Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships And The Consequences Of The Punishment System, Whitney Richards-Calathes
Inheritances Of Injustice/Transference Of Freedom: An Intimate Project On Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships And The Consequences Of The Punishment System, Whitney Richards-Calathes
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This project centers the multi-generational familial relationships between system-impacted Black women, mapping and uncovering the ways in which incarceration and practices of punishment impact, shape, hurt, and displace Black femme lineages. Through a qualitative lens and a specific focus on the current social and political landscape of Los Angeles, this dissertation examines the ways Black women are impacted by carceral ideology; from punitive definitions of Black womanhood, to the surveillance on Black femme familial intimacy and the rupture of Black women’s sense of home and place. Understandings of mass incarceration are frequently male-centered and most analyses of Black women’s system …
The Professional Is Political: On Citational Practice And The Persistent Problem Of Academic Plunder, Brittney M. Edmonds
The Professional Is Political: On Citational Practice And The Persistent Problem Of Academic Plunder, Brittney M. Edmonds
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
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How To Hold The Sky, Summer Grace Flemister
How To Hold The Sky, Summer Grace Flemister
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies and Languages and Literature of Bard College.