Gentles-Peart, Kamille,
Romance with voluptuousness Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / [electronic resource] : Kamille Gentles-Peart. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences.
9780803295155 0803295154
Racism--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Body image--United States.
Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Immigrant women--United States.
Women, Black--Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
HQ1501 / .G467 2016
305.4896/9729
Romance with voluptuousness Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / [electronic resource] : Kamille Gentles-Peart. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences.
9780803295155 0803295154
Racism--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Body image--United States.
Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Immigrant women--United States.
Women, Black--Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
HQ1501 / .G467 2016
305.4896/9729