Skin Deep Spirit Strong

Author : Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067077
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Deep, Spirit Strong written by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the black female body in the American imagination

Author : Marita Golden
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307794784
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Deep written by Marita Golden and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture.

Author : Kristina Carter
Publisher : Kristina Carter
ISBN 13 : 9781955297349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Deep written by Kristina Carter and published by Kristina Carter. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skin Deep is a book about the spirit of racism and how it affects our society. It identifies what we are fighting against, explains the root of where it surfaced, gives strategies for fighting against it, and provides insight into its destructive effects on individuals and relationships. Having a lifetime of experiences with African Americans and Caucasians gives Kristina Carter a unique perspective. As a Memphis native, she grew up in a neighborhood where 95 percent of the residents were African American. As a result of her upbringing, she understands the unique call God has strategically placed upon her life. She knows that her call is to bridge the gap between African Americans and Caucasians, and that this is a spiritual battle we are engaged in. Carter asserts that a spiritual war cannot be fought in the flesh, and that there is a domino effect resulting from this. As soon as racism is ingrained in a society, it has a snowball effect. Consequently, spirits of anger, hatred, murder, adversity, bullying, strife, fear, malice, separation, and division accompany it. Therefore, as a united body, we must understand what is really happening in the spirit realm and how to respond, accordingly. There is a sense of hope throughout Carter's book, as she strategizes to reach many leaders and notable influencers who can unify others in a stand toward ending racism. As part of her mission, she devised this book as an outright attack to align God's people and to unify their premise towards sustainable change. Carter's heart is for change- Godly change. It is her prayer that Skin Deep brings people together like never before, as it reflects the heart of God concerning racism in the spirit realm.

Author : Marita Golden
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307794784
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Deep written by Marita Golden and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture.

Author : Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472116142
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammy written by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure

Author : Brittany C. Slatton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317255712
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythologizing Black Women written by Brittany C. Slatton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Brittany C. Slatton uses innovative internet research methods to reveal contemporary prejudices about relationship partners. In doing so she thoroughly refutes the popular ideology of a post-racial America. Slatton examines the 'deep frame' of white men found in opinions and emotional reactions to black women and their body types, personalities, behaviours, and styles of speech. Their internet responses to questionnaires shows how they treat as common sense radicalised, gendered, and classed versions of black women. Mythologizing Black Women argues that the internet acts as a backstage setting, allowing white men to anonymously express raw feelings about race and sexuality without the fear of reprimand.

Author : Linden Lewis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756683
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color, Hair, and Bone written by Linden Lewis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore various critical dimensions of race from a sociological, anthropological, and literary perspective. They engage with history, either textually, materially, or with respect to identity, in an effort to demonstrate that these discourses

Author : Tisha M. Brooks
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813948940
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Deep written by Tisha M. Brooks and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince. Brooks hereby challenges the divides between religious and literary studies, and between coerced and "free" passages within travel writing studies to reveal meaningful new connections in Black women’s writings. Bringing together both sacred and secular texts, Spirit Deep uncovers an enduring spiritual legacy of movement and power that Black women have claimed for themselves in opposition to the single story of the Black (female) body as captive, monstrous, and strange. Spirit Deep thus addresses the marginalization of Black women from larger conversations about travel writing, demonstrating the continuing impact of their spirituality and movements in our present world.

Author : Ted A. Grossbart
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Deep written by Ted A. Grossbart and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janell Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315299372
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus in the Dark written by Janell Hobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance. In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, museums, and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women’s sexuality—from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos—refer back to her iconic image. Via a new preface, Hobson argues for the continuing influence of Baartman’s legacy, as her image still reverberates through the contemporary marketization of black women’s bodies, from popular music and pornography to advertising. A brand new chapter explores how historical echoes from previous eras map onto highly visible bodies in the twenty-first century. It analyzes fetishistic spectacles of the black "booty," with particular emphasis on the role of Beyoncé Knowles in the popularization of the "bootylicious" body, and the counter-aesthetic the singer has gone on to advance for black women’s bodies and beauty politics. By studying the imagery of the "Hottentot Venus," from the nineteenth century to now, readers are invited to confront the racial and sexual objectification and embodied resistance that make up a significant part of black women’s experience.