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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]
©2016
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality.
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.
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Subject Women, Black -- Caribbean Area.
Women, Black.
Caribbean Area.
Women immigrants -- United States.
Women immigrants.
United States.
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Caribbean Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Caribbean Americans.
Body image -- United States.
Body image.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caribbean Area.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: 9780803290808 0803290802 (DLC) 2016007771 (OCoLC)945693728
ISBN 9780803295131 (electronic book)
0803295138 (electronic book)
9780803295155 (electronic book)
0803295154 (electronic book)
9780803290808
0803290802
9780803295148 (mobi)
0803295154

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