Essays about: "Black Gaze."

Found 4 essays containing the words Black Gaze..

  1. 1. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE

  3. 2. Building Bridges Through Visual Manifestations of Statelessness : Decolonial feminism and coalitional engagement against denial of genocide in the Dominican Republic

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle; Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle

    Author : Melike İşleyen; [2022]
    Keywords : Statelessness; Decolonial Feminism; Dominican Republic; Coalitional Engagement; Documentary; Stateless and Our Lives in Transit;

    Abstract : The work presented aims to show the complexity, causes, and challenges of being stateless in the Dominican Republic through the medium of documentaries. This thesis will also uncoverpossibilities of resistance and coalitional engagement. READ MORE

  4. 3. Representations of Women and Gender relations in Jamaican Tourism Promotional Marketing: An analysis of visual images on Jamaica’s national DMO website.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Shailee Parasnis; [2022]
    Keywords : tourism images; male gaze; tourist gaze; gender stereotypes; ethnic stereotypes; sexualization; Jamaica; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Tourism images and representations depict women in a stereotypical way where men and women are represented differently. Like much advertising, women in tourism promotional marketing are sexualized and exoticized. Destinations are promoted through the use of the female body. READ MORE

  5. 4. THE MAKING OF THE WOMAN - Stereotypical representations of gender on the covers of Vogue China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Emma Samsioe; [2010]
    Keywords : Fashion; Magazine Cover; Representation; Gender; Vogue; China; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Aim: The aim was to create a nuanced description and understanding of cover model representations by describing, analysing and interpreting stereotypical gender portrayals on the cover of Vogue China. Methodology: The thesis has a qualitative research design inspired by practices within hermeneutics and case study research. READ MORE