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Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without.
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Racialisation and Imagined Publics in Southern Feminisms’ Solidarities
Drawing upon Clenora Hudson-Weems’ Africana Womanist theory and the conceptualisation of multiple public spheres by Nancy Fraser, Rita Filske and Lauren Berlant, I discuss how the African and African Diaspora feminist archive can be deployed across black public lives and Southern feminist solidariti…
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Race and Gender in Electronic Media
Content, Context, Culture
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today.
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Race/Gender/Class/Media
Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers
Race/Gender/Class/Media considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production. It brings together 53 readings—most are newly commissioned for this edition—by scholars representing a variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
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The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence
This article uses African-American women's experiences with violence as a particular lens to explore the relationships among (1) social constructions of violence; (2) how violence operates to link power relations of race and gender; and (3) potential contributions of transversal politics in anti-violence work.
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Media Matters
Race & Gender in U.S. Politics
Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Media Matters takes us to the heart of social inequality and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time.
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Made, laid and paid: photographic masculinities in a black men's magazine
Glossy men's magazines are frequently vilified for their overt visualising of gender stereotypes.
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Using qualitative research articles to talk about gender and race inequities in health care
Using peer-reviewed articles, this activity informs students of experiences female-identifying patients encounter in health-care contexts.
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Redefining Black Consciousness and resistance: The intersection of Black Consciousness and Black feminist thought
This article explores Black womxn's self-representations of key experiences in the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) movement, when the movement explicitly adopts Black feminist theory, such as intersectionality, as an approach for anti-racist resistance in South African higher education.