LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT.
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- abstract
- This thesis explores the way in which Black women digital content creators with natural hair utilize the private sphere -- the homespace-- as a means of claiming space on the internet to, educate, encourage, and inspire Black women with natural hair. Using a womanist lens, I examine five YouTube videos, as rhetorical artifacts, that demonstrate the communicative process of testifying. I argue that the combination of the homespace and testifying produces a transformative healing power that has mobilized Black women throughout the diaspora to wear their hair natural--otherwise known as the Contemporary Natural Hair Movement.
- subject
- contributor
- French, Nathaniel (committee chair)
- Mitra, Ananda (committee member)
- Gupta, Kristina (committee member)
- date
- 2016-05-21T08:35:54Z (accessioned)
- 2016-05-21T08:35:54Z (available)
- 2016 (issued)
- degree
- Communication (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59328 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT.
- type
- Thesis