pathologizing the Black female body. Preceding 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation by at least a decade, Haile Gerima's film Sankofa (1993) confronts the horrors of slavery utilizing sexual violence as a central and repetitive trope. Disturbing
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Scenes of Subjection
Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
Z'étoile Imma
Miley, What’s Good?
Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence
Aria S. Halliday
girls are subjected to this process; via the history of capitalism, they are made into objects and sold. Thus, the sexualization of girls and women works in tandem to construct representations of Black female bodies in popular visual culture. Furthermore
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Research Article
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- 67–83 (17 total)
Editor's Introduction
Screening Transgression
Andrew J. Ball
violence and sex, and consider whether freedom can come from the collective experience of breaking those norms. In “Scenes of Subjection: Slavery, the Black Female Body, and the Uses of Sexual Violence in Haile Gerima's Sankofa ,” Z'étoile Imma considers
Black Girls Swim
Race, Gender, and Embodied Aquatic Histories
Samantha White
( Higginbotham 1993 ). Black feminist scholars such as Brittney Cooper have also centered embodiment as an analytical framework, defining “embodied discourse … as a form of Black female textual activism” that locates the experiences of “Black female bodies by
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 63–79 (17 total)
Book Reviews
Erve Chambers, Lauren Miller Griffith, Angus Mitchell, and Frances Julia Riemer
authored by Emma Lee, a trawlwulwuy woman from tebrakunna country, Tasmania, who reflects on black female bodies in tourism. Lee uses her ethnographic research on women, fisheries, and food tourism in Basque country as a model for “aspirational and cultural
“Dreamland”
Black Girls Saying and Creating Space through Fantasy Worlds
S.R. Toliver
on police brutality and social justice. I say their names to bear witness to joys, dreams, and hopes dashed by a bullet. I say their names to negate stereotypes that situate Black female bodies as monstrous and deserving of death at the hands of
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 17–33 (17 total)
Hostile Geographies
Black Girls Fight to Save Themselves and the World
Dehanza Rogers
; Said 1978 ). In “Black Looks: Race and Representation,” bell hooks (1992) explains how Black woman as other connects to the desire of the Black female body within sexual desire and pleasure. Although the Black girls discussed in these media are not
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 34–49 (16 total)
Renewed Possibilities
Showcasing the Lived Realities of Black Girls using Ethnopoetics
Dywanna Smith
. “ Introduction .” In Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture , ed. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders , 1 – 12 . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Wheatley , P. ( 1773 ). In Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 50–70 (21 total)
I’m Not Loud, I’m Outspoken
Narratives of Four Jamaican Girls’ Identity and Academic Success
Rowena Linton and Lorna McLean
punishment are exercised against black female bodies ( Wane 2013 ; Cooper 2002 ). Canadian black feminism allows us to investigate the academic success of these girls and share their stories that epitomise how oppositional knowledge is formed at the margins
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 71–88 (18 total)
Contemporary Girls Studies
Reflections on the Inaugural International Girls Studies Association Conference
Victoria Cann, Sarah Godfrey, and Helen Warner
draws our attention to the continued need for meaningful intersectional interrogation in our approach to girls studies. In concluding, she considers what is at stake in the digital mutilation of black female bodies in a space in which black women and
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