An African City

Black Women's Creativity, Pleasure, Diasporic (Dis)Connections and Resistance Through Aesthetic and Media Practices and Scholarship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12918162
AutoresF Sobande (0000-0002-4788-4099, Cardiff University, autor de correspondencia), Krys Osei (Goldsmiths University of London)
Año2020
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas204-221
Fecha de publicación2020-04-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcaa016
OpenAlexW3040804391
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas40

How do Black women engulf themselves in the politics of being and becoming through everyday existence, aesthetics and media practices in creative, pleasurable, diasporic and resistant ways? How is the hegemony of North America, Eurocentrism, anti-Blackness and sexism implicated in this? We consider such questions in relation to Black women's media and aesthetic practices, and their related scholarship, by examining the Ghana-based web series An African City. Our work echoes calls for the decentering of media and communication studies rooted in white and Western perspectives but positioned as “universal.” We explore Black women's experiences (in Britain, the United States, Ghana, and Nigeria) as active producers in their communities; beyond the dominant epistemological hierarchy of whiteness in contrast with Blackness. Framing visual communication as a community-based source of self-expression, we emphasize the liberatory possibilities of aesthetics (fashion and screen depictions) for Black women, while tarrying with how capitalism constrains such radical potential

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Creativity · Framing (construction · Hegemony · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Social Psychology