For decades, situational comedies — commonly named “sitcoms” — have been racially segregated on TV between Black-cast sitcoms and White-cast sitcoms. Extensive research has been led about representation of Black and White masculinities in this segregated context. This master thesis studies what happens when White and Black males are equally casted as main characters in contemporary sitcoms by offering a case-study of the 2011 sitcom New Girl (2011-2017). How is Black masculinity represented in New Girl, and in which ways does it intersect with contemporary societal issues (e.g. racial profiling, Black Lives Matter movement)? This case-study uses tools, methodologies and concepts, drawn from Black and Intersectional feminism as well as Feminist media studies. Based on a 25 episodes sample of the show, it implements Ronald Jackson’s traditional stereotypes classification and “Black masculine identity theory” (Jackson, 2006) to study representations of Black masculinity in New Girl, through its two main Black male characters, Winston and Coach. Given that representations of minorities in popular culture reflect and influence our contemporary society, the results offer new insights about how sitcoms, series and popculture productions in general can challenge traditional stereotypes and display a more progressive Black masculinity.

This thesis seeks to reorient the ideological foundations of restorative justice through feminist epistemologies to explore possibilities of how the movement might more fully actualize its values. The Three Pillars of Restorative Justice, conceptualized by Howard Zehr, offer an alternative process to the punitive recourse of the criminal justice system and serve as the foundation of mainstream restorative practices. However, the praxis and analytical discourse have stalled due to the limited binary of criminal and restorative justice frameworks. My thesis uses methodologies prominent in Black and Native feminisms-- such as critical thinking, contextual intelligence, and imagining futurity-- to complicate assumptions embedded in the criminal/restorative justice relationship. I establish the framework of restorative justice and briefly summarize the essential paradoxes to make clear the parallels and limits of the relationship. I then use feminist methodologies to reinterpret the pillars' values and introduce how some activists have begun to reimagine justice.

In this thesis I investigate the portrayal of women in Hip Hop as either a sista' or a ho, a dichotomy that mirrors the Freudian Madonna-whore complex prevalent in Western Society. Belittled and disparaged by the sexism implied by this dichotomy, women have become victims of various forms of misogynistic abuse. Queen Latifah stands up against this misogyny, using Hip Hop in the very way it was designed to be used “as a voice for the disenfranchised“ speaking out against the sexism in Hip Hop in the same way African American males use Hip Hop against White mainstream society. She thus challenges the sista'-ho dichotomy and becomes empowered to decry gender discrimination in the same way African American males become empowered to denounce racism through the performance of Hip Hop.

This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, and Mickalene Thomas who navigate themes from both movements. In my project I have painted a series of interpretive acrylic portraits of close friends and family members, all adapted from photographs.

This research studied three women who have performed in hip hop music videos. Previous literature concerning these women, including memoirs, men’s magazine interviews, and Black feminist scholarship, has situated them as video vixens, terminology that all three participants disputed applied to them. The research was completed in two parts—a face-to-face phenomenological interview and a semi-structured telephone interview. In the phenomenological interview, the initial question—what are your experiences as a woman who dances/models in music videos?—was posed. The answers ranged from musings about professionalism and the lack thereof in the industry to the politics of skin color and nationality. The semi-structured interview allowed the participants to clarify or expound on experiences they discussed during the first interview.

<p>"We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves": The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968-1996 addresses the questions of mothering and survival from a queer, diasporic literary perspective, arguing that the literary practices of Black feminists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Alexis De Veaux and Barbara Smith enable a counternarrative to a neoliberal logic that criminalizes Black mothering and the survival of Black people outside and after their utility to capital. Treating Audre Lorde and June Jordan as primary theorists of mothering and survival, and Alexis De Veaux and Barbara Smith as key literary historical figures in the queer manifestation of Black feminist modes of literary production, this dissertation uses previously unavailable archival material, and queer of color critique and critical Black diasporic theoretical approaches to create an intergenerative reading practice. An intergenerative reading practice interrupts the social reproduction of meaning and value across time, and places untimely literary moments and products in poetic relationship to each other in order to reveal the possibility of another meaning of life. Ultimately this dissertation functions as a sample narrative towards the alternate meaning of life that the poetic breaks of Black feminist literary production in the queer spaces of counter-cultural markets, classrooms, autonomous publishing collectives make possible, concluding that mothering is indeed a reflexive and queer way of reading the present in the service of a substantively different future in which our outlawed love survives.</p> / Dissertation

I explore through feminist content analysis how poetry, blogging, political narrative, and music are employed by Black women as a means of personal and political empowerment, healing, activism and feminist practice. I theorize the emergence of a new manifestation Black feminism represented in poetry, blogs, political narrative, and popular music-exploring its ties to the history of Black feminism. I seek to demonstrate how gender conscious Black women create poetry, blogs, political narratives, and music as the catalyst to spark anti-sexist activism in contemporary Black women who may or may not call themselves feminists.

The purpose of my research is to contribute to the de/reconstruction of knowledge about the Black educational experience in Canada. Using post-positivist paradigms, critical Black feminist standpoint theory and auto-ethnographic qualitative methods of inquiry, I provide an insider perspective on being Black and female in the Canadian educational system, from primary and secondary experiences through the journey of claiming a higher education. My self-study explores the social and cultural forces that have impacted my life, highlights systemic racism throughout the journey, identifies themes in the educational experiences of Black students and Black women, uncovers contradictions between the dominant discourse and my reality, and incites reflection and action on the implications for teaching, research and educational policy. / Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2010-04-26 11:11:29.496

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2018-02-02T13:18:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1031979 bytes, checksum: 49889da6b7f9f772fa097a152db58656 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-02T13:18:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1031979 bytes, checksum: 49889da6b7f9f772fa097a152db58656 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / As the historical process started to promote the different waves of feminism, other aspects also emerged based on the need for representation of a multiplicity of identities that began to be defended within the feminist movement. Black women who did not feel represented by traditional feminism, make up their own mobilization space, black feminism. Including in this movement the topic of racism, beyond sexism and class issue. This paper focuses on the emancipation of black women, we will develop the research in order to understand and critically analyze the conception of women's emancipation and the role of the black feminism for the emancipation of black women. The research will be conducted with the Bamidele organization - Black Women's Organization of Paraiba, carrying out the characterization of the organization, the profiles of members and women participating in the projects carried out by Bamidele, in order to analyze how the organization understands and carry out the emancipation of black women. / Conforme o processo histórico foi promovendo as diferentes ondas do feminismo, outras vertentes também surgiram com base na necessidade de representação de uma multiplicidade de identidades que começaram a ser defendidas dentro do movimento feminista. As mulheres negras que não se sentiam representadas pelo feminismo tradicional, compõem seu próprio espaço de mobilização, o feminismo negro. Inserindo nesse movimento a pauta do racismo, além do sexismo e da questão de classe. O presente trabalho propõe o direcionamento do olhar para emancipação da mulher negra, desenvolveremos a pesquisa na perspectiva de compreender e analisar criticamente a concepção da emancipação feminina e a atuação do feminismo negro para a emancipação das mulheres negras. Com isso, realizaremos a pesquisa com a organização Bamidelê – Organização de Mulheres Negras da Paraíba, realizando a caracterização da organização, os perfis da militantes e das mulheres que participam dos projetos realizados pela Bamidelê, a fim de analisar como essa organização compreende e efetiva a emancipação das mulheres negras.

Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-12T15:49:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO de Carla Adriana da Silva Santos.pdf: 2018453 bytes, checksum: 673a7d70b1fe8ed186698f54272f9693 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2016-04-28T17:23:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO de Carla Adriana da Silva Santos.pdf: 2018453 bytes, checksum: 673a7d70b1fe8ed186698f54272f9693 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T17:23:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO de Carla Adriana da Silva Santos.pdf: 2018453 bytes, checksum: 673a7d70b1fe8ed186698f54272f9693 (MD5) / Este trabalho tem por objetivo identificar e analisar a intersecção do racismo e sexismo institucionais no Conjunto Penal Feminino de Salvador, Bahia, Complexo Penitenciário Lemos de Brito, utilizando, para tanto, o conceito de interseccionalidade como ferramenta teórico-metodológica e prática à captura dos marcadores do binômio gênero-raça que dão margem à opressão diferenciada das mulheres negras em privação de liberdade. Filia-se à metodologia afrodescendente de pesquisa e à contribuição epistemológica do feminismo negro. Trata-se de uma investigação concentrada em estudos sobre mulheres, gênero e feminismo, trazendo à tona a ausência de políticas públicas em gênero e raça voltadas às encarceradas, agravando as tecnologias de poder na execução penal. O trabalho se baseia em estudo de campo de cunho etnográfico realizado durante os meses de dezembro de 2011 e janeiro de 2012 no referido Conjunto Penal Feminino, período em que foram entrevistadas dirigentes, agentes carcerários e internas. O estudo revelou que, a exemplo do que acontece em outras instituições penais femininas, as encarceradas são majoritariamente pobres, negras, semialfabetizadas, presas por tráfico de drogas. Todas são submetidas a situações de constrangimento, perda da privacidade, péssimo atendimento médico, violência psicológica e moral de toda sorte por parte da equipe de agentes, sendo que as negras, por força da sua condição de raça e classe que resulta em baixa escolaridade, não desfrutam nem mesmo das poucas possibilidades de trabalho existentes. O estudo revelou também a pouca tolerância, tanto por parte da instituição quanto das próprias internas, à prática de religiões afro-brasileiras, bem como ao pleno exercício da sexualidade, com destaque para a incidência da lesbofobia. Revelou, ainda, que o conjunto penal estudado está longe de fazer valerem as Regras Mínimas de Tratamento de Presas, em vigor desde 2010. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze the intersection of institutionalized racism and sexism in the Penitentiary for Women of Salvador, Bahia, which is part of the Lemos de Brito Penal Complex. For that purpose, it relies on the concept of intersectionality as a theoretical, methodological, and practical tool to capture the markers of the binomial race-gender that engender the differentiated oppression of black women in a situation of imprisonment. It is affiliated to an afro-descendant research methodology and to the epistemological contribution of Black feminism. The investigation is concentrated on the field of studies on women, gender, and feminism, showing that the absence of public policies informed by a gender and race perspective, geared towards imprisoned women, intensify the technologies of power in penal execution. The study is based on ethnographic field research carried out during the months of December, 2011, and January, 2012, when prison directors, staff, and interns were interviewed. The study revealed that, as it happens in other similar institutions, most of the imprisoned women are poor, black, partially illiterate, and imprisoned on drug traffic charges. It showed that while all are subjected to humiliating situations, loss of privacy, poor medical assistance, and different forms of violence on the part of the institution, black women, due to their condition of race and class which results in low levels of schooling, are even deprived of the few work opportunities available. The study also revealed instances of lack of tolerance, both on the part of the staff as well as of other inmates, towards the practice of Afro-Brazilian religions, as well as to the exercise of sexuality, with expressions of lesbophobia. It further reviewed that the institution under investigation is far from putting into practice the Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Imprisoned Women enacted since 2010.