Essays about: "bell hooks"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words bell hooks.

  1. 1. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora

    University essay from

    Author : Ana Da Conceição Paz; [2023]
    Keywords : Capoeira; Radical Openness; African diaspora; Embodiments; Ancestral; Resistance;

    Abstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE

  3. 2. “I am all of this thing, but I am also having mother once, and she is loving me.” : Using Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala to discuss human rights violations in upper secondary education.

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Linus Eriksson; Lukas Odeborg; [2023]
    Keywords : Child soldiers; upper secondary education; deconstruction; trauma; childhood;

    Abstract : As the ages of gang criminality lower, the need for other perspectives is necessary. This study poses the question “why and how should literature featuring child soldiers be used to discuss human rights violations in the classroom in upper secondary school?” and deconstructs the binaries childhood-innocence and victim-perpetrator in the novel Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Multiple Burdens of Joyce : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Joyce’s Life in Crossing the River

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Maha Haidar; [2022]
    Keywords : Caryl Phillips; Crossing the River; feminism; race; gender; social class; intersectional feminism; bell hooks;

    Abstract : This essay analyses the life of Joyce, the protagonist in “Somewhere in England”, the fourth section of Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips, using an intersectional feminist perspective. It attempts to show how patriarchy, classism, and racism intersect to shape Joyce’s life and to limit her possibilities. READ MORE

  5. 4. In-Between Identities and Places – Negotiating Belonging with the Malmö Finns

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Haikku Arosuo; [2021]
    Keywords : Malmö; Sweden Finns; belonging; home; place identity; sense of place; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As a result of globalization and postmodern confusion, simple place-based identities may be becoming obsolete. Malmö Finns, on the other hand, are part of a thousand-year-old tradition of migration from Finland to Sweden and a long history of in-betweenness. READ MORE

  6. 5. Is it possible to make Ethical Dialogical Art? The ethical implications of applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work with Dialogue-based Community Art.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Sifen Wibell; [2020-11-20]
    Keywords : Knowledge Production; Dialogic Art; Situated Knowledge; Littoral Art; Intersectional Feminism; Ethics;

    Abstract : I am a white, non-binary, crip, and queer person with mixed european minority heritage, raised as part of the rural Swedish working class. My understanding of the world is defined by this background as well as by my time as a gender scholar and in art school. READ MORE