From the Academy to the Streets: Documenting the Healing Power of Black Feminist Creative Expression
Graduation Year
2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Women's Studies
Major Professor
Cheryl Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Gary Lemons, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Fanni Green, M.F.A.
Keywords
African-American women, Activism, Bell hooks, Black feminism, Creative expression, political narrative, empowerment, healing, Patricia Hill Collins
Abstract
I explore through feminist content analysis how poetry, blogging, political narrative, and music are employed by Black women as a means of personal and political empowerment, healing, activism and feminist practice. I theorize the emergence of a new manifestation Black feminism represented in poetry, blogs, political narrative, and popular music-exploring its ties to the history of Black feminism. I seek to demonstrate how gender conscious Black women create poetry, blogs, political narratives, and music as the catalyst to spark anti-sexist activism in contemporary Black women who may or may not call themselves feminists.
Scholar Commons Citation
Riley, Tunisia L., "From the Academy to the Streets: Documenting the Healing Power of Black Feminist Creative Expression" (2009). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/2164
