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Home » New Issue: Body Politics – Representations and the Impact of Black Women in Music (ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness)

New Issue: Body Politics – Representations and the Impact of Black Women in Music (ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness)

September 3, 2017

It is my honor to inform you that our peer-reviewed, ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness has published “Body Politics: Representations and the Impact of Black Women in Music” as Issue 13. This timely issues focuses on the ever current topic of body politics. Never a dull moment, this exciting issue peels the onion to examine the representation and impact of Black women in music. The issue also focuses on Beyoncé’s formation, colorism, agency, wearable art, identity, resistance, Eurocentrism, sex, etc. All these analysis gets written in a way that offers a new reading.

The lovely guest-editor, Cherise Charleswell, MPH did a fantastic job of weaving a multifaceted analysis and creative works that critically dealt with body politics in United States, Caribbean and Africa. The special-issue is a refreshing take. The last piece will leave you breathless. Dare I say more?

This dynamic issue will make an excellent reading for courses on women, music, black women, popular culture, sex, body politics, identity, dancehall, female power, misogynoir, and yoga.

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Issue 13: Body Politics: Representations and the Impact of Black Women in Music

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Getting into Formation: Beyoncé, The Affirmation of Blackness, & Black Women’s Agency over Their Bodies
Cherise Charleswell
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‘Jump around if yuh man can wuk!’: Celebrating Sex, Female Power and Dancehall’s Re-imaginings of Grassroots, Jamaican Feminist Knowledge
Agostinho M. N. Pinnock
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Sacred Silence
Toni Pressley-Sanon
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Skin . Body . Seduction . Nude
D. Othniel Forte
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Wearable Art: Adornment as a Form of Womanist Resistance and Self-Identification in the African Diaspora
Cherise Charleswell
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The Complex Stripper Persona: Goddess Priestess, Black and Curvalicious—Pussy Served Delicious (PDF, login required)
Ravá Shelyn Chapman

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