Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print by C. Henderson

By C. Henderson

This quantity explores problems with black girl identity through some of the "imaginings" of the black girl physique in print and visible culture. Offering an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities of subjectivity and supplier, this assortment unearths black women's expressivity as a multilayered company, releasing and equally confining. therefore those representations in artwork, literature, and tradition practice a fragile and hard dance of redemption--a redemption essential to flesh out the precarious dynamics of being black and feminine on the flip of this century. Contributions emphasize the ways that the black woman physique is framed and the way black girls (and their allies) have sought to put in writing themselves again into social discourses on their terms. 

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It is simply with reference to the possibility of appreciating the differences existing between different men, and of eventually determining whether they have originated all over the world, and under what circumstances, that we have here tried to trace some facts respecting the human races. 1057/9780230115477 - Imagining the Black Female Body, Edited by Carol E. com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-08 frightened by the possibility of African people being regarded as equal to white men.

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Com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-08 36 Kaila Adia Story fact biased, due to his accumulation of small-bodied (therefore smallbrained) African and Indian peoples and his overrepresentation of large-bodied (therefore large-brained) European and Caucasian peoples, I argue that Morton’s “hard” data was in fact only created to support his prior assumption of African inferiority. Gould goes through Morton’s research to find that “Morton’s summaries are a patchwork of fudging and finagling in the clear interest of controlling a priori convictions” (54).

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