Lerhonda S Manigault-Bryant
Biographic Data
| ID | 577053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lerhonda S Manigault-Bryant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lerhonda S |
| FAMILY NAME | Manigault-Bryant |
| SIGNATURE | MANIGAULT-BRYANT L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9093-9115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Weathering the Storm
In this essay, the authors reflect individually and together on the local cultures of hurricane preparedness and survival in the southern United States communities of their births. LeRhonda remembers the sounds and monstrous power of Hurricane Hugo, as well as her South Carolinian family's efforts towards recovery and retaining community memory, while James probes his family's history of remaining settled in Florida, even as hurricane seasons con…
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Vexy Thing takes readers on a journey into the idea and history of patriarchy. Drawing from an impressive array of sources in literature (Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde), poetry (Nayyirah Waheed, June Jordan, Ada Limón), twentieth-century film (Norma Rae, 1979), black feminism (the Combahee River Collective, Toni Morrison, Wangechi Mutu), rhythm and blues/soul music (Nina Simone, Deborah Cox), and even histories of witches, Imani Perry weaves the …
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Introduction: But Sometime Between—Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency
In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld tells a memorable story about Alec Brown Bey, a South Carolina native who appeared before the Philadelphia draft board to register during the Second World War.1 Brown Bey's story was that of millions of other Black southerners who headed north during the Great Migration, and one of nearly thirteen million men who answered t…
Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston's Modernity
Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diaspora—and Black women especially—used conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this essay, we revisit Hurston's ethnographic and folkloric study Mules and Men to consider the question: What does it mean for Black women in America to conjure …
Religion and Fat = Protestant Christianity and Weight Loss? On the Intersections of Fat Studies and Religious Studies
This article introduces the special issue on religion and fat by providing an overview of the connections between fat studies and religious studies. We identify four areas of potential overlap: religion and the fat body; religion and embodiment more generally; religion, food, and eating; and religion, weight loss, and food restriction. We then introduce the articles in this volume, which focus largely, if not exclusively, on Protestant Christiani…
Fat Spirit: Obesity, Religion, and Sapphmammibel in Contemporary Black Film
The author identifies the features of black, fat drag, comedy-drama films, and describes a disturbing trend within American cinema between 2000 and 2009 in which male comedians (Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and Tyler Perry) don intricately designed fat suits to portray “overweight” black women. Despite their billion-dollar financial success, these films are largely unexamined because of their popularity among black audiences. The article also i…
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Vexy Thing takes readers on a journey into the idea and history of patriarchy. Drawing from an impressive array of sources in literature (Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde), poetry (Nayyirah Waheed, June Jordan, Ada Limón), twentieth-century film (Norma Rae, 1979), black feminism (the Combahee River Collective, Toni Morrison, Wangechi Mutu), rhythm and blues/soul music (Nina Simone, Deborah Cox), and even histories of witches, Imani Perry weaves the …
Fat Spirit: Obesity, Religion, and Sapphmammibel in Contemporary Black Film
The author identifies the features of black, fat drag, comedy-drama films, and describes a disturbing trend within American cinema between 2000 and 2009 in which male comedians (Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and Tyler Perry) don intricately designed fat suits to portray “overweight” black women. Despite their billion-dollar financial success, these films are largely unexamined because of their popularity among black audiences. The article also i…
Religion and Fat = Protestant Christianity and Weight Loss? On the Intersections of Fat Studies and Religious Studies
This article introduces the special issue on religion and fat by providing an overview of the connections between fat studies and religious studies. We identify four areas of potential overlap: religion and the fat body; religion and embodiment more generally; religion, food, and eating; and religion, weight loss, and food restriction. We then introduce the articles in this volume, which focus largely, if not exclusively, on Protestant Christiani…
Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston's Modernity
Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diaspora—and Black women especially—used conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this essay, we revisit Hurston's ethnographic and folkloric study Mules and Men to consider the question: What does it mean for Black women in America to conjure …
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Introduction: But Sometime Between—Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency
In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, Judith Weisenfeld tells a memorable story about Alec Brown Bey, a South Carolina native who appeared before the Philadelphia draft board to register during the Second World War.1 Brown Bey's story was that of millions of other Black southerners who headed north during the Great Migration, and one of nearly thirteen million men who answered t…
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Vexy Thing takes readers on a journey into the idea and history of patriarchy. Drawing from an impressive array of sources in literature (Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde), poetry (Nayyirah Waheed, June Jordan, Ada Limón), twentieth-century film (Norma Rae, 1979), black feminism (the Combahee River Collective, Toni Morrison, Wangechi Mutu), rhythm and blues/soul music (Nina Simone, Deborah Cox), and even histories of witches, Imani Perry weaves the …
Weathering the Storm
In this essay, the authors reflect individually and together on the local cultures of hurricane preparedness and survival in the southern United States communities of their births. LeRhonda remembers the sounds and monstrous power of Hurricane Hugo, as well as her South Carolinian family's efforts towards recovery and retaining community memory, while James probes his family's history of remaining settled in Florida, even as hurricane seasons con…
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