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)
Author: Clarke, Christine Elizabeth
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