Event Title
Beauty, Body, and Black Women
Location
Diamond 223
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:30 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
I will be exploring the embodied experience of Black women at Colby College. Through observations in locations designated for multiculturalism and events dedicated to talking about bodies, I am searching the dimensions of space, identity, race, representation, gender, and discourse. Through interviews of Black women at Colby, I am asking what it means to live in the body that they have and how they navigate space? I want to understand when Black women feel their blackness and their womanhood come together or collide in a space of whiteness. This project is ultimately about voice. It is about what stories are told, what discourses are privileged, and whose bodies we conjure in our imagination when we think about body image.The subtext is about race, gender,discourse, institution, and imagination. The manifestation of these observations will hopefully take the form of a collection of narratives.
Faculty Sponsor
Winifred Tate
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Anthropology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1685
Beauty, Body, and Black Women
Diamond 223
I will be exploring the embodied experience of Black women at Colby College. Through observations in locations designated for multiculturalism and events dedicated to talking about bodies, I am searching the dimensions of space, identity, race, representation, gender, and discourse. Through interviews of Black women at Colby, I am asking what it means to live in the body that they have and how they navigate space? I want to understand when Black women feel their blackness and their womanhood come together or collide in a space of whiteness. This project is ultimately about voice. It is about what stories are told, what discourses are privileged, and whose bodies we conjure in our imagination when we think about body image.The subtext is about race, gender,discourse, institution, and imagination. The manifestation of these observations will hopefully take the form of a collection of narratives.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/222