Sarah Clunis, Lissette Acosta Corniel, Rebecca Blackwell, Alessandra Rosa, Elizabeth Aranda, L. L. López Martínez, Cécile Accilien, G. Anatol, Sabine Lamour, Alexandria Miller
Abstract:In 2010, Jamaican artist Ebony Patterson lost her father. This shifted her art significantly, and she recalls that, for the first time, she began to work with death in her practice. Her new body of work, elegantly ornamented tapestries, evokes spectral disembodied figures, elaborately coiffed and assembled with glitter, plastic, cotton, and glass. What is unexpected about the complicated tapestry of ideas in Patterson’s work is that, through its use of cloth to memorialize death, it offers an evocative connection to the use of adornment and clothing in dancehall culture and its connection to both Jonkonnu and Egúngún masquerade traditions. My analysis of Patterson’s work looks at the prominence of cloth and ornamentation in Egúngún masquerade traditions in Nigeria and within the cultural sphere of the Jamaican Jonkonnu masquerades of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This analysis links the expensive and abundant uses of cloth in the design of highly embellished Nigerian Egúngún costumes to similar traditions within Jamaican Jonkonnu masking and argues that the aesthetics of both traditions (in the form of adorned maskers) creates a body that acts as an agent of social control, communicating important ideas about kinship, masculinity, wealth, violence, and death. Through this examination of excessively embellished cloth and its historical connection to memorializing kinship connections, solidifying community relations, and simultaneously communicating wealth, aggression, and a hypermasculinity, I suggest that not only is Patterson creating Egúngún with her work but that our understanding of the popular expressive culture of men’s fashion within dancehall culture is not a feminized expression at all, but a hypermasculine Africanized expression which champions flamboyant and excessively adorned expressions of dress, while at the same time solidifying community kinships, exhibiting wealth, and memorializing the deceased.
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Abstract:This article investigates the role of contemporary women in reggae music and details the unexpectedness of their growing role in the current industry, given their relative absence since the 1970s. Through critical studies of singers Janine “Jah9” Cunningham and Kelissa [McDonald], I historicize the evolution of female songstresses and their contributions to changing the rhetoric around women’s positionalities in music and their relationship to Caribbean feminisms. Using an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates an intersectional lens with focuses on race, gender, and class, I analyze song lyrics and visual imagery that illuminate Caribbean womanhood. By critically analyzing music lyrics and videos of this movement, this essay builds on Jamaica’s far-reaching history of Black resistance and highlights Jamaican twenty-first-century conversations about anti-imperialism, Rastafari, Afrocentricity, and poverty within Black feminism and women’s empowerment. Lastly, I theorize concerning these women’s cultural contributions as intellectual property, helping to shape the Black radical tradition through music and politics.
{"title":"“Lioness Order”: The Women of the Reggae Revival Speak","authors":"Alexandria Miller","doi":"10.5406/23260947.9.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23260947.9.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article investigates the role of contemporary women in reggae music and details the unexpectedness of their growing role in the current industry, given their relative absence since the 1970s. Through critical studies of singers Janine “Jah9” Cunningham and Kelissa [McDonald], I historicize the evolution of female songstresses and their contributions to changing the rhetoric around women’s positionalities in music and their relationship to Caribbean feminisms. Using an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates an intersectional lens with focuses on race, gender, and class, I analyze song lyrics and visual imagery that illuminate Caribbean womanhood. By critically analyzing music lyrics and videos of this movement, this essay builds on Jamaica’s far-reaching history of Black resistance and highlights Jamaican twenty-first-century conversations about anti-imperialism, Rastafari, Afrocentricity, and poverty within Black feminism and women’s empowerment. Lastly, I theorize concerning these women’s cultural contributions as intellectual property, helping to shape the Black radical tradition through music and politics.","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115283497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0235
Marielisbet Perez, Francena F. L. Turner
{"title":"Mothering Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Lessons Lived and Learned in the Academy","authors":"Marielisbet Perez, Francena F. L. Turner","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133855757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0147
Y. Choi
{"title":"On Pursuing Scholarship That Makes Me Whole: Reflections of an Asian Woman Critical Feminist Scholar of Education","authors":"Y. Choi","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125687170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0119
Devon S Isaacs, Erica Ficklin, Sallie A Mack, Racheal M. Killgore, Tammie Ellington, Melissa Tehee
{"title":"All You Have to Do Is \"ASK\": An Indigenous Approach to Holistic Wellness in Academia","authors":"Devon S Isaacs, Erica Ficklin, Sallie A Mack, Racheal M. Killgore, Tammie Ellington, Melissa Tehee","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122111871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0134
Bianca N. Haro
{"title":"From Invisibilized to Conocimiento: When Injustices Happen by and with \"Our Own\"","authors":"Bianca N. Haro","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126439796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0216
Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu
{"title":"Reflections on Academic Guilt and Family Responsibilities","authors":"Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0216","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":" 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120829713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0203
Amrita Mishra
{"title":"\"Fugitive\" Futures: Reflections on Decolonizing Knowledge Production through a Student Collective and Organizing a National Conference","authors":"Amrita Mishra","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114964897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0222
Taylor M. Jackson
{"title":"Putting Me First: Navigating Mental Health Challenges as a Black Woman Graduate Student","authors":"Taylor M. Jackson","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126769967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-20DOI: 10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0178
D. Roychowdhury
{"title":"An Indian Woman's Journey through the Academy in America","authors":"D. Roychowdhury","doi":"10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/WOMGENFAMCOL.8.2.0178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223911,"journal":{"name":"Women, Gender, and Families of Color","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115408000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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