Negotiating the Jezebel: Representations of Black Women in New Media

This project exposes the pervasive ideology about hypersexual black womanhood perpetuated by new media and locates black women?s opportunities for agency and sexual pleasure within visual culture. I show how the image of the hypersexual black woman has worked to obscure black women?s victimhood, referring to this as ?representation craft.? Confronting the tension of pain and pleasure that visual culture has created for the black female body, I acknowledge the complexity of black female bodies in visual culture representations.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Thesis advisor: Weiss, Margot
    Date
    April 15, 2018
    Extent
    115 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
    Restrictions on Use

    Access limited to Wesleyan Community only. Please contact wesscholar@wesleyan.edu for more information.

    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:2201