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Vixen resistin': redefining black womanhood in hip-hop music videos.
- Source :
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Journal of black studies [J Black Stud] 2010; Vol. 41 (1), pp. 5-20. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- In recent years, scholarship on Black womanhood has become more closely connected to postmodern discourses on identity and resistance, following in the footsteps of Audre Lorde's claim that identity and sexuality have emancipatory potential. However, in the post-hip-hop era, feminists and media critics have once again brought up the idea of who controls the image. The purpose of this study is to describe possible sites of self-definition by Black women in music videos while accounting for the cultural industries that reproduce and exploit Black women's sexuality. Using textual analysis and the perspective of a noted music video performer, Melyssa Ford, this study articulates the expanse of ambiguity that lies between the images of Black womanhood that bombard consumers of BET and MTV and the selfconceptualization of the women who play those roles.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Diversity
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Social Control, Informal history
Videotape Recording history
Women's Health ethnology
Women's Health history
Women's Rights economics
Women's Rights education
Women's Rights history
Women's Rights legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American education
Black or African American ethnology
Black or African American history
Black or African American legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American psychology
Music history
Music psychology
Self Concept
Sexuality ethnology
Sexuality history
Sexuality physiology
Sexuality psychology
Social Identification
Women education
Women history
Women psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0021-9347
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of black studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21117275
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934708325377