... a roll call of over-achieving, rigorously educated Black women who nonetheless found themselves attacked and “on trial,” at the center of hearings and media scrutiny in the midst of simply trying to do their jobs. 2 Perhaps this is why mega-superstar Beyoncé Knowles’s video for her hit single...

... who nonetheless found themselves attacked and "on trial," at the center of hearings and media scrutiny in the midst of simply trying to do their jobs. 2 Perhaps this is why mega-superstar Beyonce Knowles's video for her hit single "Ring the Alarm" is in fact so disturbing. Under the direction...

... they travel beyond India's borders. Also exploring the sound of women's voices as well as the legacy of discontent and dissonance in black female soul-singing is Daphne Brooks's "'All That YouCan't Leave Behind Situating Beyonce Knowles's second solo album, B-Day,alongside Mary J. Blige's performance with U2...

... University Press . Johnson E. Patrick , and Henderson Mae G. , eds. 2005 . Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology . Durham : Duke University Press . Knowles Solange . “ Don’t Touch My Hair .” A Seat at the Table . 2016 . Saint Records and Columbia Records. Digital download...

..., Their Eyes Were Watching God Most critics, scholars, and fans have noted a paradigmatic shift in the tenor, scope, and packaging of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s work, and they have been quick to both extol and criticize her social awareness and militant edge; fewer have regarded Beyoncé’s transition...

... in contemporary feminist debates, such as the omission of Maya Angelou’s sex work past in her obituary, and hooks’s reference to Beyoncé Knowles as an “anti-feminist—that is a terrorist” to young Black women’s minds (Diaz 2014 ). As AWAKE! grew confident in its self-identification as a feminist group, members...

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... through its management of racialized and gendered knowled.9e. Christian's analysis gives us a means by which to revise Michel Foucault's notion ofbiopower, which he defines as the dominant contemporary mode of governance in which subjects are ruled through the production of regimes of knowledge, through...

... is that the more consumer products women buy, the more liberated they are. Roxane Gay ( 2014 ) identified this among celebrities like Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Emma Watson, and Jennifer Lawrence, whose claiming feminism “for themselves has become the spoonful of sugar to make that medicine go down.” Supporting...

... their bodies to subvert stereotypes and promote authenticity. Yet, in framing themselves as “respectable” digital subjects, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal aesthetic values overdetermine the value of their performances of digital Black womanhood. When Vogue featured Solange Knowles’s wedding...

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