PDF-[EBOOK]-Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have shown themselves an important voting bloc How for example does sayhername translate into a political agenda that manifests itself in specific policies Shadow Bodies focuses on the positionality of the Black womans body which serves as a springboard for helping us think through political and cultural representations It does so by asking How do discursive practices both speech and silences support and maintain hegemonic understandings of Black womanhood thereby rendering some Black women as shadow bodies unseen and unremarked upon   Grounded in Black feminist thought Julia S JordanZachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black womens bodies in the framing of HIVAIDS domestic abuse and mental illness and how such functioning renders some bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black womens politics specifically   . Representation. How the media shows us things about society – but this is through careful mediation. Hence . re-presentation.. For representation to be meaningful to audiences there needs to be a shared recognition of people, situations, ideas etc.. & Hegemony. Key concepts. Ideology . Ideology is a difficult - but important - concept to grasp. Simply put, it is the ideas . behind. a media text, the secret . (or sometimes not-so secret. ). agenda . DOUBLETHINK. Winston . sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink. [. By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. . 1. Ethnoracial . G. roup Portrayals . Portrayals are patterned to present particular characterizations over and over. These can be considered “controlling images” in media, social media, and video games. . Background. This poster . profiles research into the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in UK Higher Education. Less than 15% of Vice Chancellors are women, whereas women make up 51% of the general population, . mvs25@cam.ac.uk. Ideology-free . politics:. A bottom-up approach. CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar . Series. Cambridge. 21 June 2012. Top-down politics are based on ideology.. An . ideology. accommodates one aspect of human motivation and behaviour, to the exclusion of all others, and asserts that it is or could become all inclusive. By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. . Ethnoracial . G. roup Portrayals . Portrayals are patterned to present particular characterizations over and over. These can be considered “controlling images” in media, social media, and video games. . The politics of representation. A milestone in postcolonial studies. Power of texts. texts . (literary, visual). inform . our view of the world. , esp. of a world we don’t. know or of which we don’t have . Judith Butler and . Slavoj. . Zizek. The theorists. Judith Butler. An American professor of philosophy; one of the founding figures of queer theory and post-. structuralist. feminist theory (. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Organization & Story Book Activity. (Set up Reddy and Chisholm clips; one hour lecture Max.). Background Stuff. First Wave Feminism was 1848 (Seneca Falls Convention) to 1920 (passage of 19. th. Amendment, as seen in our movie Iron Jawed Angels.). Creating a Distinctive American Culture in the 18. th. Century. Making Sense of 18. th. Century American Politics. Inheritance of British ideology about government. Divergence: The Nature of American politics. By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. . Ethnoracial . G. roup Portrayals . Portrayals are patterned to present particular characterizations over and over. These can be considered “controlling images” in media, social media, and video games. . Judith Butler and . Slavoj. . Zizek. The theorists. Judith Butler. An American professor of philosophy; one of the founding figures of queer theory and post-. structuralist. feminist theory (. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Los AngelesFrom Black Woman to Black Power Gender Politicsin the Works of Barbara Jones-HoguA thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Art History