Black Women's Body Image and Black-oriented Media Consumption
Black Women's Body Image and Black-oriented Media Consumption

Author: Taylor I. Armer

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13:

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The proposed study examined the relationship between Black women, their body image and their Black-oriented media consumption. The literature review indicated there was a dearth of scholarship devoted to understanding the relationship between this population and their media consumption. Using social comparison as theoretical framework, nine hypotheses and two research questions were posited. A quantitative survey was administered to college-age women at a Predominantly White Institution. Major contributions from the results indicate Black-oriented media communicates a beauty ideal that is unattainable, and body part dissatisfaction was lowest when consuming media-regardless of type.

Black Women's Mental Health
Black Women's Mental Health

Author: Stephanie Y. Evans

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1438465815

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Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. “ this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

African American Women's Body Image: The Roles of Men, Media, and Race
African American Women's Body Image: The Roles of Men, Media, and Race

Author: Christina M. Capodilupo

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9783659687877

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The existing psychological literature on African American women's body image has tended to purport that this population is protected from body dissatisfaction and negative self-appraisals due to cultural acceptance of larger body sizes and a lessened preoccupation with the thin ideal. Though a thin ideal may not be central, there is ample sociocultural and historical support for the idea that skin tone and color, hair length and texture, and facial features represent appearance characteristics that are salient to the body image of Black women. When these characteristics are considered, a very different picture of Black women's body image begins to appear.

Buy Black
Buy Black

Author: Aria S. Halliday

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0252053265

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Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj’s hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women’s position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

Fashion Models and Women's Body Image
Fashion Models and Women's Body Image

Author: Glenda Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Advertisers need to start understanding that a black model used for a white audience may not be a hindrance to their ad, but using a white model for a black audience may have a negative effect.

Body Image and Self Perception Among African American Women Aged 18-30
Body Image and Self Perception Among African American Women Aged 18-30

Author: Shelia F. West

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this study was to explore how African American women think and feel about their bodies. Specifically, this study examined how Black women define beauty by means of variables such as body shape, skin complexion, and hair texture; whether African American women ages 18-30 compared themselves to media images; and if so, did comparison to these media images impact African American women's body satisfaction. In addition, this study explored if African American women felt pressure to adopt beauty standards attributed to the dominant culture, as well as the role of racial identity in forming beauty standards and social comparison behavior. Twelve African American women were interviewed and findings of this exploratory research illustrated that the Black community has different standards than the traditional beauty standards of the U.S. Even though interviewees articulated standards of beauty for women in the Black community, there was a lack of uniformity in how these women felt about their own attractiveness: some identified with the Black beauty standards, while others did not. In addition, opinions varied regarding Black women's engagement in social comparison behavior and whether it was related to racial identity or body satisfaction. Limitations of study included: how Black women define social comparison behavior and racial identity, self-identification of participants, and the lack of Caucasian women included in this study. However, this research still provided rich data exploring Black women's perceptions of beauty among other issues within the Black community. Future research is required to better understand influences shaping standards of beauty within this subculture of the United States and recommendations are provided in the last chapter.

Recovering the Black Female Body
Recovering the Black Female Body

Author: Michael Bennett

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780813528397

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Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.

Branding Black Womanhood
Branding Black Womanhood

Author: Timeka N. Tounsel

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-06-17

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1978829906

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CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women’s resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson’s mantra. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women’s possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas. Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women’s empowerment as a business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars.