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Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / Kamille Gentles-Peart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gentles-Peart, Kamille, author.
- Series:
- Expanding frontiers
- Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Black--Caribbean Area.
- Women, Black.
- Women immigrants--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Caribbean Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Caribbean Americans.
- Body image--United States.
- Body image.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Caribbean Area.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- x, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803290808
- 0803290802
- OCLC:
- 945693728
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