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Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop

Hughes, Camryn E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646

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2021, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, English.
Stolen away from their homeland and forced into the New World, African Americans have constantly faced pressures to assimilate to Western culture. Rather than giving them space to express their blackness authentically, members of Western culture have worked to perpetuate a universal imagery of black identity that in turn further establishes their inferiority to the white race. This paper employs postmodern blackness to reconstruct black identity in Western society and to also shed light on the black voices that have historically been silenced.
Gary E. Holcomb, Dr. (Advisor)
54 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; African History; African Literature; African Studies
Postmodern blackness; blackness; black; African American culture; black art; black women; hip-hop; jezebel; black bodies; sexuality; fragile masculinity; misogyny; homophobia; black identity; reconstruction; black culture; slavery; western culture

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  • Hughes, C. E. (2021). Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hughes, Camryn. Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop. 2021. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hughes, Camryn. "Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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