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LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT.

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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.
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contributor
Tate, Candis (author)
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

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