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Author Gentles-Peart, Kamille, author.

Title Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / Kamille Gentles-Peart.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Expanding frontiers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences.
Note Print version record.
Subject Women, Black -- Caribbean Area.
Women immigrants -- United States.
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Body image -- United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caribbean Area.
Racism -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Body image. (OCoLC)fst00835344
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00847446
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) (OCoLC)fst00922652
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Women, Black. (OCoLC)fst01178916
Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
Caribbean Area. (OCoLC)fst01244080
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780803290808 0803290802 (DLC) 2016007771 (OCoLC)945693728
ISBN 9780803295131 (electronic book)
0803295138 (electronic book)
9780803295155 (electronic book)
0803295154 (electronic book)
9780803295148 (mobi)
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