Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before

Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Title Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before PDF eBook
Author Diana Adesola Mafe
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 186
Release 2018-03-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1477315233

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When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television—a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema’s history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency. Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American and British speculative film and television, including 28 Days Later, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Children of Men, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Firefly, and Doctor Who: Series 3. Each of these has a subversive black female character in its main cast, and Mafe draws on critical race, postcolonial, and gender theories to explore each film and show, placing the black female characters at the center of the analysis and demonstrating their agency. The first full study of black female characters in speculative film and television, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before shows why heroines such as Lex in AVP and Zoë in Firefly are inspiring a generation of fans, just as Uhura did.

The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman

The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman
Title The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman PDF eBook
Author Shahrazad Ali
Publisher
Pages 212
Release 1989
Genre Psychology
ISBN

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Black Women For Beginners

Black Women For Beginners
Title Black Women For Beginners PDF eBook
Author S. Pearl Sharp
Publisher Red Wheel/Weiser
Pages 192
Release 2007-08-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1939994004

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There are over 519 million Black Women on the planet Earth, give or take a dozen. There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country and in almost every context.mThere are even Black Women in the space program. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She travels with forces greater than herself. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women For Beginners is a documentary comic book that chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from antiquity to the present, reflecting with wit and humor the challenges they have faced and the fortitude and strength that have sustained Black Women and patterned history with a diversity of excellence. As warriors, healers, teachers, mothers, queens, and liberators Black Women have had tremendous impact on issues from food to fashion, from politics to poetry. Replete with a glossary of reference terms, Black Women For Beginners whimsically details the influence of stereotypes on the portrayal of Black Women in various venues and punctuates the absurd.

Beyond Uhura

Beyond Uhura
Title Beyond Uhura PDF eBook
Author Nichelle Nichols
Publisher Boxtree
Pages 0
Release 1996-09
Genre Actors
ISBN 9780752202389

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For nearly 30 years Nichelle Nichols, African American granddaughter of a former slave-owner, has been part of the Star Trek myth as Lieutenant Uhura, Communications Officer on the Starship Enterprise. In this autobiography she recounts her personal and professional life.

Go Girl!

Go Girl!
Title Go Girl! PDF eBook
Author Elaine Lee
Publisher The Eighth Mountain Press
Pages 374
Release 1997
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780933377424

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The first travel book for the sisters!

Black Woman Redefined

Black Woman Redefined
Title Black Woman Redefined PDF eBook
Author Sophia Nelson
Publisher BenBella Books, Inc.
Pages 385
Release 2012-11-20
Genre Psychology
ISBN 193666173X

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It's time for a REDEFINITION among black women in America. In its 2011 hardcover release, Black Woman Redefined was a top-selling book and took home a 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards. Author Sophia A. Nelson won the 2012 Champions of Diversity Award, given each year by diversity business executives in Fortune 100 companies. Black Woman Redefined was inspired in part by what Nelson calls “open season on accomplished black women": from Don Imus's name-calling of black female basketball players in 2007 and a 2009 Yale University study titled “Marriage Eludes High-Achieving Black Women," to the more recent revelation that First Lady Michelle Obama is concerned about being painted as an “angry, black woman." In Black Woman Redefined, Nelson sets out to change this cultural perception, taking readers on a no-holds-barred journey into the hearts and minds of accomplished black women to reveal truths, tribulations, and insights like never before. This groundbreaking book provides black women of a new generation with essential career and life-coaching advice. Based on never-before-done research on college-educated, career-driven black women, Nelson offers her fellow “sisters"—and those who know, love, and work with them—a feel-good volume for personal and professional success that empowers them without tearing others down.

No Thanks

No Thanks
Title No Thanks PDF eBook
Author Keturah Kendrick
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 152
Release 2019-06-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1631525360

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Through eight humorous essays, Keturah Kendrick chronicles her journey to freedom. She shares the stories of other women who have freed themselves from the narrow definition of what makes a “proper woman.” Spotlighting the cultural bullying that dictates women must become mothers to the expectation that one’s spiritual path follow the traditions of previous generations, Kendrick imagines a world where black women make life choices that center on their needs and desires. She also examines the rising trend of women choosing to remain single and explores how such a choice is the antithesis to the trope of the sorrowful black woman who cannot find a man to grant her the prize of legal partnership. A mixture of memoir and cultural critique, No Thanks uses wit and insight to paint a picture of the twenty-first-century black woman who has unchained herself from what she is supposed to be. A black woman who has given herself permission to be whomever she wants to be.