Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS : a narrative remix / Nghana Tamu Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Nghana Tamu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Health and hygiene.

African American women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages)

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Using the lens of hip hop feminism, analyzes how five black women artists-Sapphire, Sister Souljah, Mara Brock Akil, Nikkole Salter, and Danai Gurira-give voice and visibility to black women's lived experiences with HIV/AIDS in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: A tale of three influences : my roots/routes (in)to black women's health, hip hop, and HIV/AIDS

In search of our mothers' theories : hip hop feminism in praxis

"Cunt buckets" and "bad bitches" : black girl identity formation and sexual health in PUSH : a novel and The Coldest Winter Ever

Transnational flow(s) : staging silence, stigma, and shame in in the continuum

"Prioritized" : the hip hop (re)construction of black womanhood in Girlfriends and The Game

In memoriam-and in life.

Notes:

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