Romance with voluptuousness [electronic resource] :Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / Kamille Gentles-Peart.
By: Gentles-Peart, Kamille [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality.Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803295155; 0803295154.Subject(s): 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 AreaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 305.4896/9729 Online resources: Full text available: 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.
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