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2. Black Female Sexual Identity: The Self Defined
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Marshall,Annecka (Author) and Maynard,Donna-Maria (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(3) : 327-336
- Notes:
- The findings of a questionnaire survey distributed to 153 female university students in Barbados and Jamaica in 2008 reveal the attitudes to diverse female sexualities in the Caribbean. The participants in the survey discussed changing beliefs about sexuality in Caribbean society. The findings show that slowly, as a consequence of globalization and the mass media, people are increasingly open-minded about sex. Women are confidently expressing and increasingly asserting themselves as equal partners. There is greater debate in Caribbean society about female same-sex relationships, and deeper awareness of sexual harassment is evident. Nevertheless, for some respondents, the same degrading notions of women as sex objects and promiscuous beings continue to exist.
3. Re-Africanization and the Cultural Politics of Bahianidade
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Paschel,Tianna S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 423-440
- Notes:
- Examines racial politics in Brazil by analyzing the city of Salvador da Bahia's cultural policies over time and their relationship to national ideology and racial identity in Brazil more generally. It argues that the re-Africanization of Salvador's Carnival and its historical center, the Pelourinho, although initially products of the mobilization of Afro-Bahians themselves, have become institutionalized and ironically serve today as testaments to Brazil's diversity, tolerance, and integration.