Gentles-Peart, Kamille, <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803295155 0803295154 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Racism--United States.<br/>Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.<br/>Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.<br/>Body image--United States.<br/>Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.<br/>Immigrant women--United States.<br/>Women, Black--Caribbean Area.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1501  / .G467 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4896/9729