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The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards A Greener Future By David R. Boyd, Janet Grafton
The Goose
Review of David R. Boyd's The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis, Ryan Palmer
Thinking With Water Edited By Cecilia Ming Si Chen, Janine Macleod And Astrida Neimanis, Ryan Palmer
The Goose
A review of the edited collection Thinking with Water (Chen, MacLeod, Neimanis) which addresses the place of water in our daily lives, cultural imagination, and ecological systems.
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 …