Beauty and Beast? The Brutality of Being Beautiful and Black while Woman

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This blog is to collect questions and comments regarding Dr. DaMaris B. Hill's "Beauty and Beast? The Brutality of Being Beautiful and Black while Woman" for  GWS 201 Gender and Popular Culture course with Dr. Carol Mason. 

150 Years.....

150 Years of Defending the Humanity of Black Women

Further Readings and Some Additional Information 

 

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell, president and vice-president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs  (NACWC) challenged the president of Missouri Press Association who referred to a women of African descent at thieves and prostitutes.

"Porn" by  Alice Walker - Feminism and Pornography, 2000

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

The Black Female Body: A Photographic History by Deborah Willis, Carla Williams

Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present by Deborah Willis

The Venus Hottentot: Poems by Elizabeth Alexander

Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by Deborah Gray White

Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender by Janell Hobson 

New Commodities, New Consumers  Selling Blackness in a Global Marketplace and From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism  by Patricia Hill Collins