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Author Gentles-Peart, Kamille, author.

Title Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / Kamille Gentles-Peart
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Expanding frontiers.
Contents The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women, Black -- Caribbean Area
Women immigrants -- United States
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Body image -- United States
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caribbean Area
Racism -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Body image
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Racism
Women, Black
Women immigrants
Caribbean Area
United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
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