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Encyclopedia of Body Adornment
Encyclopedia of Body Adornment
People everywhere have attempted to change their bodies in an effort to meet their cultural standards of beauty, as well as their religious and/or social obligations. Often times, ...
Body and Shame
Body and Shame
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates the concept of body shame and explores its significance when considering philosophical accoun...
Brown in Black and White
Brown in Black and White
In 1956, the Mexican American modern dance choreographer José Limón presented The Emperor Jones, an all-male dance based on the 1920 Eugene O’Neill play. Limón’s Emperor loosely fo...
Black Women Remember Black Girls
Black Women Remember Black Girls
This chapter shows how Black girlhood must be made—in SOLHOT the space of Black girlhood is made through time, a timing that is infused with the sacred and spirit. In SOLHOT, to “h...
The Body of Creation
The Body of Creation
In the modern period, space has predominately been conceived of as a mere setting for human action, ontologically separate from the body. In Markan studies, the result has been the...
Black Music Matters
Black Music Matters
Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black mus...
The Negro Question, the Woman Question, and the “Vital Link”
The Negro Question, the Woman Question, and the “Vital Link”
This chapter provides a history of Black internationalist feminism. It begins with the intertwinings of Black nationalist and Old Left movements in the interwar years, with special...