Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood: Media, Literature and Theory

Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood

Media, Literature and Theory

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Edited by Marquita Gammage, Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: May 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781783089383

Subjects:: Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy

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'Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood' investigates the stereotyping 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 Black women work to challenge and dispel false perceptions, and 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 racists 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 females and, more specifically, its impact on their social and psychological well-being.

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Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood

Media, Literature and Theory

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-8

Chapter 1 - Black Student Mothers: A Culturally Relevant Exploratory Study
pp 9-26

Chapter 2 - Uninhabitable Moments: The Symbol of Serena Williams, Rage and Rackets in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
pp 27-52

Chapter 3 - “Black Women Are Genius!”: The Image of Celebrated Black Motherhood in Stand-Up Comedy?
pp 53-74

Chapter 4 - The Virility of the Haitian Womb: The Biggest Threat to the Dominican Right
pp 75-94

Chapter 5 - Ladyhood in Distress: Neoliberalism and Black Politics in Nicole Sconiers's Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair, and Rage
pp 95-114

Chapter 6 - Sapphires Gone Wild: The Politics of Black Women's Respectability in the Age of the Ratchet
pp 115-134

Chapter 7 - Representing the Black Woman as Immoral and Abandoning the Black Family: A Cultural Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Television Dramas Starring Black Women
pp 135-154

Chapter 8 - Historical Miseducation on Black Womanhood
pp 155-166

Chapter 9 - Michelle Obama Laughs: Political Meme Warfare and the Regurgitation of the Mythological Black Woman
pp 167-180

Chapter 10 - Kawaida Womanism as an Interpretative Framework for Understanding Africana Womanhood: Analyzing African American Women's Self-Perceptions
pp 181-192

List of Contributors
pp 193-196

Index
pp 197-198

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