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Shadow Bodies - Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics (Hardcover)
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Shadow Bodies - Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics (Hardcover)
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What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political
context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive
although Black women have shown themselves an important voting
bloc? How for example, does #sayhername translate into a political
agenda that manifests itself in specific policies? Shadow Bodies
focuses on the positionality of the Black woman's body, which
serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and
cultural representations. It does so by asking: How do discursive
practices, both speech and silences, support and maintain hegemonic
understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black
women as shadow bodies, unseen and unremarked upon? Grounded in
Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the
functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women's bodies in the
framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how
such functioning renders some bodies invisible in Black politics in
general and Black women's politics specifically.
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